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

2. How do people make temporary housing in Canvas Town?
(a) They just sleep out in the open.
(b) Stacking piles of wood.
(c) Stretching sailcloth.
(d) Stacking bales of straw.

3. Who brings Lucy to Stratton?
(a) Captain Ivers.
(b) Jack.
(c) Dan Arabus.
(d) Mr. Goodrich.

4. What does Willy realize about Horace as they are talking?
(a) He does not believe her story.
(b) He is a slave.
(c) He is an orphan.
(d) He is half white.

5. What is Mr. Fraunces' response to Willy's tale about her past?
(a) He says she should go back to her family's farm.
(b) He says he does not believe her.
(c) He offers her a job at the tavern.
(d) He says she should start wearing dresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Willy end up telling Mr. Fraunces the entire truth of her past?

2. Where does Willy think Mr. Fraunces' loyalties might lie?

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

4. What example set by Horace does Willy say she'll do?

5. What does Willy do when she is sent to buy sweets for the tavern?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Willy learn about her mother's last three years?

2. What is happening about peace talks starting in April of 1782?

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

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

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

6. How long has Willy's father been dead, and how is Willy feeling about her life?

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

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

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

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

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