Q 01/05

Sophia's War opens as Sophia watches the British hang which young American spy in occupied New York?

A) Nathan Hale

B) Paul Revere

C) Ethan Allen

D) Crispus Attucks

Answer · why

A) Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale was a 21-year-old Continental officer caught gathering intelligence behind British lines. Watching him die shows Sophia what spying can co...

Q 02/05

John André, the British officer hanged as a spy in Sophia's War, is now buried in which English church?

A) St Paul's Cathedral

B) Westminster Abbey

C) Canterbury Cathedral

D) York Minster

Answer · why

B) Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey received his remains in 1821, moved from beneath the American gallows at a royal duke's request. The enemy spy now rests among kings...

Q 03/05

In Sophia's War, how does British Lieutenant John André first enter Sophia's life in occupied New York?

A) He arrests her father

B) He teaches her French

C) He boards in their home

D) He buys her father's shop

Answer · why

C) He boards in their home

He boards in their home because the occupying army makes the Calderwoods house British officers. Sophia, whose soldier brother is missing, finds herse...

Q 04/05

In Sophia's War, Benedict Arnold plots to hand the British which American stronghold on the Hudson?

A) Fort Ticonderoga

B) Fort Washington

C) Stony Point

D) West Point

Answer · why

D) West Point

West Point sat on high ground above a tight bend in the river, so its guns could stop British warships sailing upriver. Losing it would have split New...

Q 05/05

In the second half of Sophia's War, Sophia spies inside British Army headquarters while working as what?

A) A maid

B) A cook

C) A seamstress

D) A laundress

Answer · why

A) A maid

A maid is the cover her spy handlers arrange inside the British commander's own house. There she finds André, now a major, at work on a secret that co...