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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Eliza tell Mattie that she should eat slowly?
(a) Because there is not enough food.
(b) Because Eliza wants to make sure she get some.
(c) So that Mattie will not get sick again.
(d) So that she will not enough so much.

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

3. What do Grandfather and Mattie find when they walk into the coffeehouse?
(a) It has been looted.
(b) That is Eliza is there.
(c) That everything is just as they left it.
(d) That Mrs. Cook is back.

4. When Eliza and Mattie get back to Joseph's what do they find?
(a) Joseph is sick again.
(b) Robbers have come and stolen everything.
(c) Mrs. Cook is there waiting for them.
(d) The twins and Nell have fallen ill.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Mattie think she sees when she is walking to get help for Nell?

3. Where is Mattie allowed to go when she leaves the house?

4. Who are Robert and William?

5. Why does Eliza become angry at the apothecary?

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