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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Chapter 7 Mattie's mother pays her a compliment. What does she tell her?
(a) That she is funny.
(b) That she is smart.
(c) That she is a wonderful daughter.
(d) That she is pretty.

3. After reading Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 how would you characterize Matilda's relationship with her mother?
(a) Matilda and her mother are more like sisters than mother and daughter.
(b) Matilda and her mother do not have a relationship.
(c) Matilda feels like a servant.
(d) Matilda and her mother are friends.

4. Why does the farmer throw Mattie and Grandfather off of the wagon?
(a) Because Mattie has fallen ill.
(b) Because Grandfather has fallen ill.
(c) Because the horse cannot pull all of them.
(d) Because Mattie has been rude.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why must Eliza go home at night?

3. What does Mattie suggest doing tomorrow?

4. Matilda and her mother live above what type of business?

5. Before Mattie's grandfather came to live with them what was his profession?

(see the answer key)

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