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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. How does Willy get some medicine for Lucy?
(a) She is unable to get any medicine.
(b) From another slave who had been ill.
(c) By gathering herbs in the woods.
(d) By begging a doctor.

2. From where is Mr. Goodrich?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Maine.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Connecticut.

3. What does Mr. Fraunces tell Willy to do?
(a) Help the cook clean the pots and pans.
(b) Help Horace unload the wagon.
(c) Go and care for the horses.
(d) Go to his office.

4. Where is the woman that Willy talked to when she and Horace return to Canvas Town?
(a) She has disappeared.
(b) Selling alcohol she has made.
(c) In a tent delirious with fever.
(d) In a tent dead.

5. For whom does Willy say she works?
(a) No one.
(b) The British general.
(c) Sam Fraunces.
(d) The American general.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Willy hang a horse blanket in the loft?

2. What is the "Queen's Head"?

3. What does Horace think about Willy that is not true?

4. How does Willy feel in her home at the tavern?

5. Who comes in when Willy and Horace are about to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Willy feel about what Mr. Goodrich tells her?

2. What is Willy trying to decide in the search for her mother?

3. What happens that makes Horace uncomfortable when he takes Willy to the kitchen of the Queen's Head for a meal?

4. How does Willy get a letter written to her aunt Betsy?

5. What does Willy's Uncle Jack say when Willy finds him in the barn?

6. What does Mr. Goodrich want when he asks for Willy in the tavern one day?

7. Why does Willy decide to stay dressed in britches?

8. What tips does Horace give Willy about lying when Willy lies about why she has no money?

9. How does Willy plan to get her letter delivered to her aunt Betsy?

10. How do the British treat the American prisoners who are disembarking from the prison ships?

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