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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Willy's real name?

2. How does Jordan get into the fort?

3. Where is Willy determined to go?

4. What does Captain Ivers ask Willy when he first sees her?

5. What are Willy's first words to a British soldier?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Willy do after leaving the fort?

2. What does Willy's father say about seeing the British ships in the bay?

3. Where is Fort Griswold, and what is significant about the Fort?

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

5. What happens when a British soldier finds Willy?

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

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

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

9. Why does Willy end up staying in the fort during the fighting, and what does she do?

10. Describe Willy's first meeting with her aunt Betsy.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

War Comes to Willy Freeman might be considered a tale of good versus evil. Discuss the following:

1. What does it mean for a story to be a tale of good versus evil?

2. Is any one person, group, or country all good or all evil?

3. Identify three characters you would label as good and explain, using examples, your reasoning.

4. Identify three characters you would label as evil and explain, using examples, your reasoning.

5. Do you think most people prefer good to triumph? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in War Comes to Willy Freeman.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of War Comes to Willy Freeman. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of War Comes to Willy Freeman. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

War Comes to Willy Freeman could be said to be a "bildungsroman" of Willy Freeman. Discuss the following:

1. Define the concepts "bildungsroman" and "coming of age."

2. Thoroughly trace and analyze War Comes to Willy Freeman as a bildungsroman of Willy Freeman. Give specific examples. What does Willy learn? How has she changed? Is the change for the better?

3. Why do you think many novels/stories written for teens are "coming of age" stories? Do you think it is good for teens to read this genre? Why or why not?

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