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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 cows to sell to the Americans.
(b) Deliver a message to a man near the beach.
(c) Help him take some horses to sell to the British.
(d) Help him take some horses to sell to the Americans.

2. Where is Jordan at the moment?
(a) Fishing on the bay.
(b) Planting the fields.
(c) Drilling with an American regiment.
(d) In town seeing a doctor.

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

4. What do the two black men urge Lucy and Willy to do?
(a) Leave the area with the British.
(b) Ask the British colonel for compensation for the cow.
(c) Go with them to talk to the black families in the area.
(d) Head south towards Virginia.

5. Who tells Willy to get out of the fort?
(a) William Latham.
(b) A British soldier.
(c) An American soldier.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucy tell two black men to take with them?

2. Who are the two men that Willy and her mother encounter?

3. Who are Betsy and Jack Arabus?

4. What does the black man do after that?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What prompts Willy to ride for the fort?

5. What angers Willy the following day?

6. What is a daily chore Willy must perform, and why does her mother tell her to skip it that day?

7. What noise do Willy and Lucy hear, and what is the cause of the noise?

8. Describe Willy's entry into the fort.

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

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

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