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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lucy get the cow?
(a) She saves the calf's life when it is abandoned.
(b) The narrator does not say how she came to have the cow.
(c) In payment for Lucy nursing a child back to health.
(d) She buys it with their life's savings.

2. What is Willy's most vivid memory of "that day"?
(a) Men screaming.
(b) An owl hooting.
(c) The sun flashing on the bayonets.
(d) The dog howling.

3. What does Willy do?
(a) Turn and walk away.
(b) Tells him she is a girl.
(c) Slap the man.
(d) Blush.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who passes by Willy's house?

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

3. What is one option Willy thinks about but discards?

4. What does Willy learn about her mother?

5. What does Willy encounter as she is sailing toward New York?

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