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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 is one of Willy's daily jobs?
(a) To check the fences.
(b) To take the mild to the Ledyard family.
(c) To mend the family's clothes.
(d) To clean out the barn.

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

3. What does Willy help a young boy do?
(a) Make food for the soldiers.
(b) Take water around to the soldiers.
(c) Make cartridges for the muskets.
(d) Tear up sheets for bandages.

4. Why does Jordan want Willy to go with him to the woods near the fort?
(a) To hold the horse while Jordan runs to the fort to give a message.
(b) To take a messag to Colonel Ledyard.
(c) To witness how awful war is.
(d) To bring the horse back home.

5. Why does Willy fear for her father's life?
(a) He is fighting with Washington's regiment.
(b) He does not have his paperwork attesting to his freedom.
(c) He is on his way home and the path is near the conflict.
(d) Shots are being fired toward the bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Colonel Ledyard?

2. Why are Willy's parents free?

3. What is Willy's real name?

4. How does Lucy get the cow?

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

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