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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank bring back to eat in Chapter 21?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Bread and cheese.
(c) Potatoes, cheese, and milk.
(d) Soup and wine.

2. What did Mattie die from?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Accident.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Heart disease.

3. On what street do Mattie and Alden live?
(a) Alpine St.
(b) Mapleton St.
(c) Lincoln St.
(d) Pearl St.

4. What is the date of the Goethe poem that Mamah purchases in Berlin?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1779.

5. What book written by Ellen Key does Mamah buy and read?
(a) The Education of the Child.
(b) The Woman Movement.
(c) Love and Marriage.
(d) The Morality of Women.

6. What does Mamah give Taylor as going away gifts?
(a) Books.
(b) His photograph.
(c) Pens.
(d) Italian and German dictionaries.

7. How long has it been since Ellen Key has had a real home?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 20 years.

8. Where is the man from that Frank brings to look at Mamah's house in Chapter 7?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

9. Where does Frank tell the attendant at the reception desk at the Hotel Adlun that he and Mamah are going?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Russia.
(c) Japan.
(d) United States.

10. In Chapter 7, when is Mattie expecting another child?
(a) September.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) June.

11. What part of the city is the suburb located where Mamah and Frank stay after leaving the Adlun?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

12. What do the hills of Italy remind Frank of?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Minnesota.

13. Where did Frank spend summers during his early years?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Iowa.

14. Who is arriving in Boulder the same day that Mamah and her children arrive?
(a) Elizabeth Blackwell.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Billy Sunday.
(d) Jane Addams.

15. What did Mamah teach in Port Huron?
(a) Home Economics and Literature.
(b) English and History.
(c) French and English Grammar.
(d) English and French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellen ask Mamah to translate as a trial?

2. What type of home did the narrator and her husband live in when the story begins?

3. In Chapter 6, where is Lizzie taking Jessica?

4. After Mamah and Frank reunite in in Chapter 25, how far do they have to walk to find an open cafe?

5. Where are the children and the others when Frank comes over to visit Mamah in Chapter 5?

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