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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willy wish on this particular day?
(a) Her father were home.
(b) Her mother would allow her to go to town to meet her father.
(c) She did not have to work in the family garden.
(d) She could go to the school that the white children attend.

2. Who arrives while Willy is waiting for her mother?
(a) William Latham.
(b) Mrs. Ledyard.
(c) Jordan.
(d) Granny Hyde.

3. What does Captain Ivers say to his wife?
(a) To fix him some food.
(b) To find him a pen and paper.
(c) To be quiet.
(d) To look at Willy's papers.

4. Why does William mistake Willy for a boy?
(a) She is the only female in the fort.
(b) He does not mistake her becaues he knows her.
(c) She is wearing britches.
(d) She has her hair tucked under a leather strip.

5. What does Willy say she wants to do when questioned by Betsy?
(a) Move to Canada.
(b) Stay with Betsy.
(c) Travel to New York.
(d) Go back home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Willy think her mother might be taken?

2. What does Colonel Ledyard do that is not required of him?

3. Where does Willy stay near when she is traveling?

4. What angers Willy the next day?

5. Whom does Betsy say Willy resembles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the British treat the Americans after the Americans surrender?

2. Why are Jack and his family no longer slaves?

3. How does Willy escape the American raiding party?

4. How does Willy describe her memory of the day before the battle at Fort Griswold?

5. How does Granny Hyde offer to help Willy?

6. What does Willy's father say about seeing the British ships in the bay?

7. Describe Willy's first meeting with her aunt Betsy.

8. Describe the first encounter between Willy and the Ivers.

9. Why does Willy end up staying in the fort during the fighting, and what does she do?

10. What does Lucy ask of her husband? How does he respond?

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