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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What message do the British send to the fort?
(a) A demand for their surrender.
(b) A demand for their British prisoners.
(c) They do not send a note.
(d) An offer to let the women and children leave the fort.

2. How does Jordan get into the fort?
(a) Through the main gate.
(b) Through a small gate at the rear of the fort.
(c) Over the wall.
(d) He doesn't.

3. What does Willy encounter as she is sailing toward New York?
(a) A British raiding party.
(b) A thunderstorm.
(c) Rough water.
(d) An American raiding party.

4. What does Willy's mother tell her to do instead of watching who's passing by the house?
(a) Gather eggs.
(b) Milk the cow.
(c) Weed the garden.
(d) Feed the chickens.

5. Where does Willy find her mother after leaving the fort?
(a) She doesn't.
(b) At home.
(c) At the Ledyard home.
(d) At the cemetery.

6. Why does William mistake Willy for a boy?
(a) He does not mistake her becaues he knows her.
(b) She is the only female in the fort.
(c) She has her hair tucked under a leather strip.
(d) She is wearing britches.

7. Whom does Betsy say Willy resembles?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Betsy's grandmother.
(c) Betsy's mother.
(d) Willy's father.

8. Jordan warns the Americans about _____________.
(a) Tainted meat.
(b) British ships in the harbor.
(c) The British offloading cannons.
(d) Livestock being stolen.

9. How will Willy get where she is going?
(a) The wagon.
(b) Walking.
(c) The horse.
(d) Her father's boat.

10. Who has told Willy's uncle about New York?
(a) Captain Ivers.
(b) Sam Fraunces.
(c) No one.
(d) Colonel Breechton.

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

12. 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.

13. Where does Willy go after milking the cow?
(a) To a creek to bathe.
(b) Back to the house.
(c) To the bay to search for her father.
(d) To her friend's house about a mile away.

14. What are Willy's first words to a British soldier?
(a) Her brother is only ten and not to hurt him.
(b) Her father will hurt him if he hurts her.
(c) She's a girl.
(d) She does not speak to the British soldier.

15. What does Willy think about instead of her father?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The horse.
(c) The smells around her.
(d) The cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Willy decide she should go?

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

3. Who passes by Willy's house?

4. Who comes in the house and demands to know who Willy is?

5. What does Willy do when she wakes the next morning?

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