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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 suddenly frightens Willy as she is about to milk the cow?
(a) The whine of a cannonball.
(b) A bear.
(c) The sound of a woman screaming.
(d) A wolf.

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

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

4. How does Willy get into the fort?
(a) Holding onto a rope that her father pulls up.
(b) She does not go to the fort.
(c) By making the horse jump the small outer wall.
(d) Through the back gate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Ivers order Willy to do?

2. Why are Willy's parents free?

3. What does Willy help a young boy do?

4. In what village is the Fort located?

5. What does Willy learn that the neighbors thought about Willy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Willy's entry into the fort.

7. What angers Willy the following day?

8. What does Willy say about black men in the British army, and how do the two soldiers respond?

9. What prompts Willy to ride for the fort?

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

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