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Sarah Bishop
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who were Talitha and Tabitha? | They were beautiful Gloucesters, mahogany colored with white blazes (cows). (3) |
| What trees grew in the Bishops' meadow? | Roxbury Russets (3) |
| What happened when a Loyalist called John Adams a windbag? | They burned his pigsty and threatened to burn down his barn. (5) |
| Who are the Skinners? | Gangs of young men who went around burning people's property and wanted to hang King George from the nearest tree (5) |
| What was the name of the village where the Bishops traded goods? | Mott's Corner (12) |
| What old fear did many of the Mott's Corner people still believe to be true? | That witches really existed and that ladies who lived by themselves with black cats were really leading witches like Mrs. Ryder (12) |
| Who was Caleb Cleghorn? | The preacher in the Mott's Corner church that father did not like because he changed from being loyal to the king to supporting the rebellion (30) |
| How did Caleb Cleghorn describe the conflict in the colonies? | "It's not a revolution. It's a civil war, a war among people who once were friends." (31) |
| Why doesn't Sarah's father want her to return to school? | Her teacher, Master Wentworth, had become a "mouthpiece for the rebellion." (32) |
| What happened to the Bishops while they attended Sunday church services in Mott's Corner? | They were robbed of their teams of horses along with five other families, all of whom were loyal supporters of King George. (33) |
| Why did Ben Birdsall come to speak to father late at night? | To charge him with a crime of highhandedness for taking and destroying David Whitlock's copy of Common Sense by Thomas Paine and for having a picture of King George hanging on his wall (39-40) |
| What did Ben Birsdall and his group of men do to the Bishops home and barn? | They lit the hay next to the barn on fire and then tied Sarah to a tree. They slit the throat of the horse in the barn and then they carried Sarah's father out to the meadow and tarred and feathered him (40-41) |
| Where did Sarah go for work after her father died? | The Lion & the Lamb, a tavern owned by the Pennywell family near the East River (44-45) |
| Why did Mr. Pennywell think that young men like Chad made good soldiers? | Because they never think about death (51) |
| How did Sarah describe the difference between the British soldiers and the Hessians? | The British had good manners but the Hessians bragged about how they never took prisoners and ran them through with a single thrust of their bayonets (53) |
| How did the Hessians change their looks? | They were really blond but had blackened their hair and mustaches with black shoe polish (53) |
| How did Sarah meet the British Major Stirling? | She was powdering his wig (54) |
| How did British soldiers get their wigs treated/taken care of? | The men would put their head through a hole in the door and then Sarah would cover their face with a cloth cone. She would then comb the wig and dust it with a sweet-smelling powder (54) |
| What did Major Stirling offer to do for Sarah to help her find Chad? | He wrote her a note to take to Captain Cunningham who was in charge of all the rebel prisoners (54) |
| What does Sarah tell Young Mr. Morton her name is? Why? | She says her name is Amy Travers (who was really her cousin from Midhurst, England) because she thinks the King's men are still searching for her (172) |
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