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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the soldier that grabs Willy laugh?
(a) He thinks she is crazy to be searching for her mother.
(b) She is so skinny.
(c) He thinks she is using potatoes to look like a girl.
(d) He does not laugh.

2. What does Willy wish on this particular day?
(a) Her father were home.
(b) She could go to the school that the white children attend.
(c) Her mother would allow her to go to town to meet her father.
(d) She did not have to work in the family garden.

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

4. What military fort is near Willy's house?
(a) Fort Annapolis.
(b) Fort Griswold.
(c) Fort Sumpter.
(d) Fort Lee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Willy's daily jobs?

2. Where is the likely place for a battle between the British and Americans?

3. Who is Captain Ivers?

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

5. What angers Willy the next day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Willy get into the Fort?

2. What is a daily chore Willy must perform, and why does her mother tell her to skip it that day?

3. Describe the debate Willy has in her head concerning being an American versus a British subject.

4. How does Willy travel to her aunt and uncle's home?

5. Describe the first encounter between Willy and the Ivers.

6. How does Willy slip away from the Ivers' household? Where does she go?

7. How does Willy describe her memory of the day before the battle at Fort Griswold?

8. Describe Willy's first meeting with her aunt Betsy.

9. What noise do Willy and Lucy hear, and what is the cause of the noise?

10. How do the British treat the Americans after the Americans surrender?

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