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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What insult does Matilda say to her mother?
(a) She tells her she hates her.
(b) She tells her that she is ugly.
(c) She tells her she is horrid.
(d) She tells her that she is mean.

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

3. Why does Mattie's mother make such a fuss over the invitation?
(a) Because she does not want to go.
(b) Because Edward Ogilvie is a potential husband for Mattie.
(c) Because she is afraid of catching the fever.
(d) Because she wants to be friends with Mrs. Ogilvie.

4. What type of meeting is Eliza attending?
(a) The Society to Cure the Fever.
(b) A church meeting.
(c) The Culinary Society.
(d) The Free African Society.

5. What happened to Matilda's father?
(a) He was killed in the war.
(b) He lives in Europe.
(c) He fell from a ladder and died.
(d) He and Matilda's mother are divorced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language are the Ogilvie children studying?

2. What do the men in the coffeehouse say that they need to find for Mattie?

3. Who is Polly?

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

5. What do Matilda and her mother argue about in this chapter?

(see the answer key)

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