Q 01/05

Wanted by the Patriots, how does Elihu Lockton slip out of New York in the novel Chains?

A) Disguised as a woman

B) Aboard a fishing boat

C) Inside a cheese crate

D) Under a hay wagon

Answer · why

C) Inside a cheese crate

Inside a cheese crate is how Lockton leaves: a man nails him into a box labelled as cheese, while his wife is told to stay behind and guard the house.

Q 02/05

In Chains, Isabel's cheek is branded with the letter I as a court's punishment for which offence?

A) Insolence

B) Idleness

C) Impiety

D) Infidelity

Answer · why

A) Insolence

Insolence is the charge Madam Lockton asks the judge to burn into Isabel's face. By the end of the novel Isabel decides the letter stands for her own ...

Q 03/05

In Chains, Isabel overhears Lockton and the mayor plotting to kill which Continental Army general?

A) Benedict Arnold

B) George Washington

C) Nathanael Greene

D) Marquis de Lafayette

Answer · why

B) George Washington

George Washington was the target of a real conspiracy in New York in June 1776, and a soldier from his own guard was hanged for his part in it.

Q 04/05

Which pamphlet by Thomas Paine does a New York stationer secretly give Isabel to read in Chains?

A) The American Crisis

B) Rights of Man

C) The Age of Reason

D) Common Sense

Answer · why

D) Common Sense

Common Sense, Paine's case for breaking with Britain, is slipped to Isabel just before Christmas. She has to read its first sentence four times before...

Q 05/05

From which New England colony are Isabel and Ruth taken before being shipped to New York in Chains?

A) Rhode Island

B) Massachusetts

C) Connecticut

D) New Hampshire

Answer · why

A) Rhode Island

Rhode Island is the home Isabel spends the whole novel trying to get back to. The voyage from its port of Newport takes two days, spent below deck wit...