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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Susannah?
(a) Mattie's cousin.
(b) Mattie's aunt.
(c) A nurse on the wagon.
(d) A young girl going to work at the orphan house.

3. Before Mattie's grandfather came to live with them what was his profession?
(a) He was a chef.
(b) He was a carpenter.
(c) He was an army captain.
(d) He was the captain of a ship.

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

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

6. In what city does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) New York City.

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

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

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

10. How do the Ogilvie daughters treat Mattie?
(a) They befriend her.
(b) They refuse to enter the same room.
(c) They are nice to her.
(d) They are mean to her.

11. When Mattie's mother begins to worry about Mattie falling ill she suggests sending her where?
(a) To a friend's farm.
(b) To Europe.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) To the mountains.

12. How many people have died in the city within the first week of the fever?
(a) 88
(b) 10
(c) 55
(d) 64

13. What type of lessons does Grandfather give Mattie?
(a) French lessons.
(b) Etiquette lessons.
(c) Soldiering lessons.
(d) Spanish lessons.

14. What type of fruit does Mattie find on her walk back to Grandfather?
(a) Pears.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Apples.
(d) Grapes.

15. Who stays with Mattie through the night?
(a) She is alone.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Dr. Rowley.
(d) Eliza.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 6 what does Mattie vow never to complain about again?

2. Under which famous political figure did Mattie's grandfather serve?

3. Why does Mrs. Epler, the egg vendor, say that people are dying?

4. Why does Grandfather not wake up?

5. What does Grandfather suggest that Nathaniel Benson did at the market?

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