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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Nell?
(a) A friend of the family.
(b) The little orphan girl that Mattie found.
(c) Mattie's neighbor.
(d) A farmer at the market.

3. How does Mattie hurt her foot?
(a) She fell in the garden.
(b) She tripped on Silas.
(c) She tripped on the stairs.
(d) She steps on a sharp rock trying to escape the robbers.

4. Who is Polly?
(a) Matilda's best friend.
(b) Matilda's sister.
(c) A slave.
(d) The serving girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Mattie and her mother get invited to go?

2. Why did Eliza want Mattie to cut her some asparagus grass?

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

4. What woke up Mattie?

5. What doe Mattie use to make a pillow fro Grandfather?

(see the answer key)

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