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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What woke up Mattie?
(a) The farmer yelling.
(b) The wagon stopping.
(c) The baby crying.
(d) Grandfather's snoring.

2. Who does Mattie run into while she is out of the house?
(a) Her former teacher.
(b) Polly's mother.
(c) Nathaniel Benson.
(d) A friend of her mother's.

3. When thinking about her grandfather, her mother and Eliza, Mattie decides that who has the most strong-headed opinions?
(a) Mrs. Cook.
(b) They are an even match.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Eliza.

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

5. When are patients discharged?
(a) When they are not coughing any longer.
(b) When they are unable to pay.
(c) When they are strong enough to walk on their own.
(d) When they have not had a fever for 24 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie do for clean clothes?

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

3. Who wakes Mattie up on her first morning back home?

4. Where does the clerk threaten to take Mattie?

5. Why has business increased at the coffeehouse over the past week?

(see the answer key)

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