If you have no choice over the choices or situation you are given, can you really consider your will "free"?

Between awareness and free will? Well, you always have free will. If you don't know what your options are, that doesn't take away your free will but it DOES limit you in a way. If I was buying a smoothie and the lady told me they only come in strawberry or banana, I'd pick banana. But if that was a lie, and I could also pick kiwi, it wouldn't take away my free will, just my options.