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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 does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?

2. What does Captain Ivers order Willy to do?

3. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

4. What does Lucy beg Jordan not to do?

5. What word does Willy hear when she gets back to the horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Willy's entry into the fort.

2. What angers Willy the following day?

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

4. How does the Freeman family obtain a cow, and what does it symbolize to Lucy?

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

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

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

8. What happens when a British soldier finds Willy?

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

10. How does Willy travel to her aunt and uncle's home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of justice. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with justice? Why? What are some symbols of justice? Symbols of injustice? What characters seem to care about justice for themselves and others? Who seems to disregard the concept of justice?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of war. How does war impact three of the characters? Are any characters untouched by the war? Who? Why? Is the war just in the eyes of the Americans? The eyes of the British? How does war brutalize some people? Why? Is it possible to be honorable as a soldier at war? Were any soldiers portrayed as being honorable?

3. What do you think is the purpose of identifying and analyzing various themes of a work of fiction? Do you think reading fiction and understanding themes can make the reader change his/her thoughts or actions? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Willy Freeman is only thirteen when she witnesses her father brutally killed. She travels to New York in search of her mother. Discuss the following:

1. Does it seem possible that Willy could have done everything she does at her age? Explain using examples.

2. Do you think the children of Willy's age were more mature and independent then as compared to the children of the present? Why or why not? Use examples of Willy's actions from the text and compare how you think the typical thirteen year old would respond to the same situation today.

3. Does it seem possible that Horace could have done everything he does at his age? Explain using examples.

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. Is War Comes to Willy Freeman action or character driven? Explain your response.

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