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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Mattie not want to wake Grandfather for help?
2. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?
3. Where does Mattie fall asleep?
4. When does Eliza return home?
5. Who is the first person up at the coffeehouse?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mattie promise her mother that she will not wear her clothes.
2. Why does Mother Smith suggest that Mattie is doing more harm than good to Nell?
3. At the end of Chapter 18 what does Mattie daydream about?
4. Why does Mattie feel like a traitor when she is walking Nell to the orphan house?
5. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?
6. Why does Mattie feel her mother would be proud of her?
7. What does Mattie give thanks for at the end of Chapter 17?
8. What is Eliza's reaction when she sees Mattie?
9. Why did Mattie's mother take a horse from the Ludingtons' farm and ride off?
10. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Eliza and Mrs. Cook. In your essay:
1) Describe Eliza (focus on her physical appearance as well as her personality).
2) Describe Mrs. Cook focus on her physical appearance as well as her personality).
3) Analyze their similarities and differences.
Use specific examples from the text to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
One of the topics that FEVER, 1793 addresses is the contrast between how the city was before the epidemic and how the city is after the epidemic. In your essay:
1) Describe the city before the epidemic.
2) Describe the city after the epidemic.
3) Analyze the similarities and differences between these two periods.
Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 26 Mattie states, "Yellow Fever had certainly done away with vanity." What do you think she means by this statement? How would you have reacted if your "vanity" was taken away by disease? Why?
Be sure to cite specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.
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