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

2. What does Horace suggest that Willy say about having no money?
(a) She got drunk, fell asleep, and was robbed.
(b) Her mother demanded it for food for her brothers.
(c) She was sick and had to pay for medicine.
(d) She gave it all to her father who beat it out of her.

3. Why does Willy end up telling Mr. Fraunces the entire truth of her past?
(a) He forces her to at knifepoint.
(b) She decides she trusts him.
(c) She feels hopeless.
(d) She gets too entangled in her lies.

4. Why can't Willy get a doctor to look at her mother?
(a) No doctor would attend a black person.
(b) Captain Ivers has forbidden it.
(c) The closest doctor is fifty miles away.
(d) The area doctor is killed in the war.

5. What does Willy decide to pretend?
(a) She is a boy.
(b) Her father is still alive.
(c) She can return home whenever she wants.
(d) Her family lives in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does Mr. Fraunces say Willy can do in New York?

2. How does the boy suggest Willy get into the city?

3. What does Horace say when Willy tells him goodbye?

4. What is Mr. Fraunces' response to Willy's tale about her past?

5. What is happening to the prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Fraunces send Willy to the dock in April?

2. Describe Canvas Town.

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

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

5. What happens that makes Willy hang up a horse blanket in her part of the loft where she sleeps?

6. What does Willy learn from a woman to whom she speaks in Canvas Town?

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

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

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

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

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