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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucy beg Jordan not to do?
(a) Scout for the Americans.
(b) Join the British army.
(c) Take Willy with him.
(d) Take them off the farm and go South.

2. How old is Willy?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 9.
(d) 15.

3. What happens to Jordan after Colonel Ledyard surrenders?
(a) He is eventually killed.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He is let go.
(d) He is imprisoned.

4. Who are Jordan and Lucy?
(a) Willy's grandparents.
(b) Willy's siblings.
(c) Willy's aunt and uncle.
(d) Willy's parents.

5. Who are the two men that Willy and her mother encounter?
(a) The neighbors to the South and West.
(b) Members of the Third New Jersey Volunteers.
(c) Willy's father and his good friend.
(d) Willy's father and uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willy wish on this particular day?

2. What do the British do when Colonel Ledyard surrenders?

3. How does Lucy get the cow?

4. What is Willy's most vivid memory of "that day"?

5. Who is Colonel Ledyard?

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