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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Mattie do before enjoying her coffee?
(a) Set the breakfast table.
(b) Sweep the kitchen.
(c) Fold the linens.
(d) Cook breakfast.

2. How is Nell acting throughout Chapter 21?
(a) She will not let Mattie touch her.
(b) She will not let go of Mattie.
(c) She will not stop talking.
(d) She will not stop crying.

3. When does Eliza return home?
(a) She does not come home.
(b) Well after midnight.
(c) By dinner.
(d) Noon.

4. What was Mattie dreaming about at the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Nathaniel Benson.
(c) Bush Hill.
(d) Roast beef, vegetables, and bread.

5. What is Mattie given at the market?
(a) Corn.
(b) Two hens and some eggs.
(c) Some bread.
(d) A pumpkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie ask Mr. Brown to do?

2. Who is in charge when Eliza is away?

3. What is the response of the customers in the coffeehouse when Mattie and her mother enter?

4. Why does Mattie not want to wake Grandfather for help?

5. What does Mattie find at the end of Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the short excerpt at the beginning of the chapter foreshadow?

2. Why is the Sharp home destroyed inside?

3. How are people who left the city acting differently from those who stayed in the city?

4. Does Yellow Fever still exist and if so where?

5. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

6. What does Eliza suggest that Mattie and Nell should do until the epidemic is over?

7. Why does Mattie tell Eliza that the children should not be bled?

8. Why does Mattie feel like a traitor when she is walking Nell to the orphan house?

9. What type of information does Mr. Brown say that he is now reporting in his newspaper?

10. Why does Mother Smith suggest that Mattie is doing more harm than good to Nell?

(see the answer keys)

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