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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. Who is Colonel Ledyard?
(a) The Freeman's former owner.
(b) An elderly man who used to be in the British army.
(c) The leader of the American regiment passing by the Freeman home.
(d) The leader of the British regiment passing by the Freeman home.

2. What does Willy do?
(a) Slap the man.
(b) Tells him she is a girl.
(c) Blush.
(d) Turn and walk away.

3. What does Willy take that she feels badly about?
(a) A pair shoes.
(b) Some food.
(c) Her aunt's coat.
(d) Her aunt's dress.

4. How does Willy distract her captives?
(a) By screaming about a snake.
(b) By waving at imaginary foes.
(c) By screaming about a bear.
(d) By tossing pebbles into the woods.

5. According to Willy, where are her freedom papers?
(a) She does not know.
(b) In the cabin back home.
(c) Her father had them on his person.
(d) In her pack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Willy and her mother run toward the cow?

2. What does Willy's mother say about Willy's dress?

3. Who gives Willy a ride at one point on her travel?

4. What does Captain Ivers say to his wife?

5. What does Willy say to the two black men?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Granny Hyde offer to help Willy?

2. What does Willy do after leaving the fort?

3. Who is the boy whom Willy helps? What do they do?

4. What questions does Captain Ivers ask Willy? What worries Willy about his questions?

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

6. Why does Willy wish her father were home. and what does her mother say to that wish?

7. What happens when a British soldier finds Willy?

8. Where is Fort Griswold, and what is significant about the Fort?

9. Who is Granny Hyde, and what does she tell Willy?

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

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