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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 order Willy to do?
(a) Cook him a meal.
(b) Put on a dress.
(c) Give him her paper attesting to her freedom.
(d) Leave the house.

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

3. Why can't Willy do one of her daily chores today?
(a) The Ledyards have left for New York.
(b) There are no needles in the house.
(c) Because of the fighting between the Americans and British.
(d) The horses are too restless with all the cannon sounds.

4. Why does Jordan want Willy to go with him to the woods near the fort?
(a) To take a messag to Colonel Ledyard.
(b) To witness how awful war is.
(c) To hold the horse while Jordan runs to the fort to give a message.
(d) To bring the horse back home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Willy the next day?

2. What is Willy's most vivid memory of "that day"?

3. In what village is the Fort located?

4. Why does the soldier that grabs Willy laugh?

5. What is in Baker's Cove?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Willy slip away from the Ivers' household? Where does she go?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Willy get into the Fort?

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