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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 Captain Ivers say he needs Dan to do?
(a) Help him take some horses to sell to the British.
(b) Help him take some cows to sell to the Americans.
(c) Deliver a message to a man near the beach.
(d) Help him take some horses to sell to the Americans.

2. Who is Captain Ivers?
(a) Betsy's owner.
(b) Jack's brother.
(c) Betsy's brother.
(d) A British officer who accosts Willy.

3. What does Captain Ivers ask Willy when he first sees her?
(a) If she can cook.
(b) If she is with the British forces.
(c) If she is a runaway.
(d) If she is interested in joining the army.

4. Why do Willy and her mother run toward the cow?
(a) They hear some shrieking noises.
(b) The cow is in the safest area of the farm.
(c) They want to figure out why the cow is not giving any milk.
(d) They hear the cow moo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One does one of the black men ask Willy?

2. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

3. What does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?

4. What does Willy discover when she scouts the area?

5. How old is Willy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Willy's entry into the fort.

2. What do Willy and her aunt Betsy discuss concerning New York?

3. How does the Freeman family obtain a cow, and what does it symbolize to Lucy?

4. Why is it lucky that Willy's uncle Jack is at home?

5. What does Willy tell her aunt she wants to do, and how does the aunt respond?

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

7. How does Willy escape the American raiding party?

8. What does Willy do after leaving the fort?

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

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

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