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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Jordan at the moment?
(a) In town seeing a doctor.
(b) Drilling with an American regiment.
(c) Planting the fields.
(d) Fishing on the bay.

2. What does Captain Ivers say he needs Dan to do?
(a) Help him take some horses to sell to the British.
(b) Help him take some cows to sell to the Americans.
(c) Help him take some horses to sell to the Americans.
(d) Deliver a message to a man near the beach.

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

4. What suddenly frightens Willy as she is about to milk the cow?
(a) The sound of a woman screaming.
(b) A bear.
(c) The whine of a cannonball.
(d) A wolf.

5. About what does Lucy debate as she is walking?
(a) Whether she should go into New York City.
(b) Whether she wants to claim to be British or American.
(c) If the British are right.
(d) If her mother is still alive.

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

7. About what is Willy afraid?
(a) Her family's farm will be lost.
(b) Mrs. Ivers will treat her badly.
(c) Captain Ivers will force her back into slavery.
(d) Willy's mother is searching for her.

8. Where is the likely place for a battle between the British and Americans?
(a) In a valley about forty miles away.
(b) The fort near Willy's home.
(c) Nowhere near the area of Willy's home.
(d) Near the coast about 100 miles from Willy's home.

9. Where is Freeman the cow kept?
(a) In the barn right next to the house.
(b) In what Willy calls a salt marsh.
(c) It wanders around the farm where it wants to go.
(d) In the pasture that lies fallow.

10. What do the two black men say about the Americans?
(a) The Americans are going to lose the war.
(b) The Americans want to keep the blacks as slaves.
(c) The Americans believe in torture.
(d) Nothing.

11. What does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?
(a) Calls out for her mother.
(b) Feeds the chickens and makes her mother breakfast.
(c) Cries and goes back to sleep.
(d) Gets on her horse to go get her father's body.

12. What does Willy say to the two black men?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She wishes the British would leave the area.
(c) She thinks the British are mean.
(d) She did not know the British had black soldiers.

13. What does Captain Ivers say to his wife?
(a) To look at Willy's papers.
(b) To find him a pen and paper.
(c) To be quiet.
(d) To fix him some food.

14. What does Lucy tell two black men to take with them?
(a) Some mushrooms.
(b) Some greens.
(c) The cow meat.
(d) The cow's milk.

15. What does Willy say is not a good idea to her aunt?
(a) Staying with them.
(b) Going back to her family's farm.
(c) Changing into a dress.
(d) Going to New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colonel Ledyard do that is not required of him?

2. What does Willy think about instead of her father?

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

4. Who tells Willy she cannot stay with her aunt and uncle?

5. What does Willy do immediately after her visitor leaves?

(see the answer keys)

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