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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the clerk threaten to take Mattie?
(a) To the orphan house.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To the city.
(d) To the prison.

2. Where do Mattie and her grandfather go?
(a) To the newspaper office.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To the country.
(d) To the market.

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

4. Where is Mattie moved on the tenth day?
(a) To a wagon.
(b) To a field.
(c) To the barn.
(d) Nowhere.

5. What do Matilda and her mother argue about in this chapter?
(a) Matilda wants to go away to school and her mother does not want her to go.
(b) Matilda wants to go to the funeral and her mother does not want her to go.
(c) Matilda does not want to work and her mother is making her.
(d) Matilda wants a new dress and her mother says no.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bush Hill?

2. Who is Polly?

3. What is the one thing that Mattie vows never to do?

4. What is causing Mattie's terrible dreams?

5. What does Mattie get from the coffeehouse for Grandfather's burial?

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