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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. Why does Madam Lockton send Isabel into a secretive meeting Mr. Lockton is conducting?
(a) To learn what is going on in the meeting.
(b) To remind Mr. Lockton about his being under suspicion already.
(c) To ask Mr. Lockton to come out of the meeting for a moment.
(d) To serve refreshments.

2. What does Mr. Lockton tell Isabel to do when he is entertaining some friends?
(a) Serve them food and drink.
(b) Keep Ruth out of the way.
(c) Clean all the cloaks of the guests.
(d) Entertain the children of his guests.

3. Who is Curzon?
(a) One of the soldiers who is searching the ship's hold.
(b) A slave boy who offers to show Isabel the way to the bakery.
(c) A slave boy who offers to show Isabel the way to the water hole.
(d) A young man who is enamored of Madam Lockton's daughter.

4. Where does Becky obtain most of her gossipy news?
(a) The market.
(b) From overhearing the Locktons talking after dinner.
(c) She is staunchly opposed to listening to gossip.
(d) From the men she flirts with.

5. Who is Colonel Regen?
(a) The warden at the prison.
(b) A Patriot farmer turned soldier.
(c) The Patriot leader.
(d) A Loyalist farmer turned soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pleads for the girls' welfare?

2. What do soldiers ask to search?

3. What does Madam Lockton blame when Mr. Lockton fights with her for packing her bags?

4. What does Isabel try to do in the meeting?

5. Why are the windows removed in the Lockton's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Isabel feel about Ruth's assigned role in the household?

2. What are Isabel and Ruth doing in the funeral procession, and what is important about the day for them?

3. Why has Miss Mary Finch's nephew come to Rhode Island?

4. What does Becky Berry tell Isabel about Ruth?

5. What happens the morning after Isabel made a report to Curzon?

6. What does Colonel Regen ask Isabel to do and how does he make it possible for her to travel about without being picked up?

7. What does Isabel struggle to do as she is working about the house?

8. How does Isabel get into a secretive meeting of the Loyalists, and what how does she conduct herself?

9. Why does Isabel ask the pastor for work?

10. What surprises Isabel when she goes to bring Lady Seymour back to the Lockton home?

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