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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie compare the clerk to?
(a) A snake.
(b) A toad.
(c) A lion.
(d) A clown.

2. How many people have died in the city within the first week of the fever?
(a) 64
(b) 10
(c) 55
(d) 88

3. Why does Mrs. Epler, the egg vendor, say that people are dying?
(a) Because they are weak.
(b) Because they are sinners who do not attend church.
(c) Because they have bad luck.
(d) Because they are dirty.

4. How regularly did Mattie bathe before the fever?
(a) Daily.
(b) Weekly.
(c) Monthly.
(d) Every other day.

5. What does Mattie do for clean clothes?
(a) Borrows some from a neighbor.
(b) Sews some.
(c) Borrows some from her mother.
(d) Eliza brings her some.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Grandfather's contribution to dinner?

2. Why does Grandfather not wake up?

3. What does Mattie find in the garden that makes her dance?

4. Who is dropped off in front of the coffeehouse at the end of the chapter?

5. When Mattie leaves her bed for the first time alone where does she go?

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