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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Eliza return home?
(a) Noon.
(b) Well after midnight.
(c) By dinner.
(d) She does not come home.

3. Who is Susannah?
(a) A young girl going to work at the orphan house.
(b) Mattie's aunt.
(c) Mattie's cousin.
(d) A nurse on the wagon.

4. Why does Mattie have to rewash the tablecloths?
(a) Because Silas knocked them down while chasing a squirrel.
(b) Eliza spilled dirty ditch water on them.
(c) She needs to wash them twice because of the fever germs.
(d) She dropped them.

5. What type of fruit does Mattie find on her walk back to Grandfather?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Pears.
(d) Apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people does Mr.Brown tell Mattie have died?

2. Who will stay with Mrs. Cook?

3. What happens to Mattie at the end of the chapter?

4. Why does Mattie think that the bugs are bothering them at the beginning of Chapter 11?

5. What does Mattie do for clean clothes?

(see the answer key)

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