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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the one thing that Mattie vows never to do?
(a) Become a teacher.
(b) Become a cook.
(c) Become a scullery maid.
(d) Become a nurse.

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

4. Why does Grandfather think that he is a fool?
(a) For bringing King George along.
(b) For bringing Mattie to the country.
(c) For trusting the farmer.
(d) For not paying more attention to the fever and not listening to Mattie's mother..

5. How does this new person help Mrs. Cook?
(a) He cuts her and lets her bleed.
(b) He gives her a shot.
(c) He prescribes antibiotics.
(d) He says that there is nothing he can do to help.

6. Who is Dr. Rowley?
(a) A well respected doctor in town.
(b) A doctor working with the mayor to stop the spread of the fever.
(c) A doctor that has been called in to look at Mrs. Cook.
(d) The doctor who helped Colette.

7. When are patients discharged?
(a) When they are unable to pay.
(b) When they are strong enough to walk on their own.
(c) When they are not coughing any longer.
(d) When they have not had a fever for 24 hours.

8. What does Mattie suggest doing tomorrow?
(a) Finding more food.
(b) Walking towards the country.
(c) Finding a doctor.
(d) Moving their camp tomorrow to the willow tree.

9. Where is Mattie allowed to go when she leaves the house?
(a) To the river for a swim.
(b) The market for supplies for the coffeehouse.
(c) The blacksmith's to talk to Matthew.
(d) To see her friend Nathaniel Benson.

10. What does Mattie compare the clerk to?
(a) A lion.
(b) A clown.
(c) A toad.
(d) A snake.

11. 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 Mattie has been rude.
(d) Because the horse cannot pull all of them.

12. What does Mattie do once they get her mother upstairs in bed?
(a) She returns to work.
(b) She sits by her bed refusing to leave her side.
(c) She becomes angry.
(d) She cries.

13. Why must Eliza go home at night?
(a) She is too tired to help Mrs. Cook and Eliza.
(b) She wants to go home.
(c) Her brother's family is expecting her.
(d) She is afraid of becoming ill.

14. Who does Mattie run into while she is out of the house?
(a) A friend of her mother's.
(b) Polly's mother.
(c) Nathaniel Benson.
(d) Her former teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Matilda's mother not allow Matilda to take Polly's family food?

2. Why has business increased at the coffeehouse over the past week?

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

4. What type of lessons does Grandfather give Mattie?

5. Who is Susannah?

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