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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 Captain Ivers ask Willy when he first sees her?

2. What does Willy help a young boy do?

3. Why does Betsy cry when Willy is talking with her?

4. What does Willy take that she feels badly about?

5. Who has told Willy's uncle about New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the debate Willy has in her head concerning being an American versus a British subject.

2. Why are Jack and his family no longer slaves?

3. Why is it lucky that Willy's uncle Jack is at home?

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

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

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

7. What questions does Captain Ivers ask Willy? What worries Willy about his questions?

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

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

10. How does Willy escape the American raiding party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of power in War Comes to Willy Freeman. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with power and/or have the most power? Why? What are some symbols of power? Symbols of powerlessness? What characters seem powerless?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of fear in War Comes to Willy Freeman. Who is afraid? Why? Who provokes fear in others? How? Why? Is Willy a fearful person? Why or why not? Do you think she does things in spite of being afraid or because of being afraid? Or, sometimes one or the other? Give examples.

3. Trace and analyze the theme of change. Who changes in War Comes to Willy Freeman? Who seems to stay stagnant? What are the reasons the characters change who do so? Why do some characters not change? Do you think Willy's changes at the end of the book will last? Why or why not? What would it take to make Captain Ivers change? Do you think there is hope for Captain Ivers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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