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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 lion.
(b) A clown.
(c) A toad.
(d) A snake.

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

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

4. 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.

5. When Mattie leaves her bed for the first time alone where does she go?
(a) To the bathroom.
(b) To get something to eat.
(c) To find her Grandfather.
(d) To find Nathaniel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandfather promise Mrs. Flagg?

2. Why does Grandfather not wake up?

3. Why does Mrs. Epler, the egg vendor, say that people are dying?

4. When Mattie's mother begins to worry about Mattie falling ill she suggests sending her where?

5. Why does the farmer throw Mattie and Grandfather off of the wagon?

(see the answer key)

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