The Scarlet Stockings Spy

The author of the book is

• Jan Brett
•  Robert Papp
• Betsy Ross
• Trinka Noble

The setting of the story is

• New York City, Kansas
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Trenton, Delaware

The author writes "Philadelphia sat twitching like a nervous mouse." Twitching like a nervous mouse is an example of

• simile
• alliteration
• mousification
• personification

The title of the book is an example of

•  Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Rhyming
• patriotism

Drinking English tea was considered disloyal. So the patriots drank

• tea made from apple peels
• tea made from dried raspberry leaves
• milk, water and root beer
• frothy, mocha cappuccino with whipped cream and sprinkles

Maddy Rose's father

•  worked as an aide to General Washington
• made musket balls from church bells and spoons.
• was in France with Benjamin Franklin trying to get help from the French.
• died in the Battle of Princeton.

How did Maddy Rose feel about her clothes?

• She was happy to wear them.
•  She wished for fancy new white stockings.
• She was proud of her hand knit, scarlet stockings.
• She washed them daily because she only had one day's worth of clothes.

The signal for a war ship was

•  Two shiny red apples on the window sill.
•  A cobblestone in the toe of a scaret stocking hung on the clothesline.
• A cool white petticoat hanging upside down from the low branch of the apple tree.
• A straw hat hung over the knocker on the back door of the house.

Maddy's brother Jonathan is safe coming to the house because

• he has a special pass written by Genreal Washington himself.
• he rides a very fast horse.
• he parachutes in on nights that have no moon.
• he wears a different disguise each time he comes.

The battle described in the story takes place at

• Brandywine Creek
• Lexington
• Concord
• Valley Forge