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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Bush Hill?
(a) A prison.
(b) A mansion that has been turned into a hospital.
(c) A base camp for the army.
(d) A school.

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

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

5. Why does Mattie not tell her Grandfather about her fishing experience?
(a) She does not want to share the fish she caught.
(b) She does not want to admit defeat.
(c) She does not want to make him feel more hunger by thinking of fish.
(d) Because she does not want to share her secret way of catching fish.

6. Under which famous political figure did Mattie's grandfather serve?
(a) George Washington.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

7. Who do Grandfather and Eliza bring to help the next morning?
(a) The mayor.
(b) Dr. Kerr.
(c) Mr. Carris
(d) Dr. Rowley.

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

9. Why does Mattie think that the bugs are bothering them at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Because the baby needs a clean diaper.
(b) Because of the fever.
(c) Because of the horse.
(d) Because of the food Eliza packed.

10. What happened to Matilda's father?
(a) He fell from a ladder and died.
(b) He was killed in the war.
(c) He lives in Europe.
(d) He and Matilda's mother are divorced.

11. What does King George demand from Mattie?
(a) Bread and berries.
(b) To go home.
(c) Bacon and eggs.
(d) Tea and rum.

12. What does Mattie daydream about?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Her mother coming back and being proud of Mattie.
(d) Nathaniel Benson.

13. What does Grandfather promise Mrs. Flagg?
(a) To take her to a ball.
(b) To marry her.
(c) A house.
(d) A buy her dinner.

14. Why has Mrs. Ogilvie been lonely?
(a) All of her friends have moved away.
(b) She has never had any friends.
(c) All of her friends are angry with her.
(d) All of her friends have gone to the country because of the fever.

15. What happens to Mattie at the end of the chapter?
(a) She becomes ill and passes out.
(b) She catches fish.
(c) She trips and breaks her leg.
(d) She decides to stay at the farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dr. Rowley?

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

3. Where is Mattie moved on the tenth day?

4. What type of fruit does Mattie find on her walk back to Grandfather?

5. Who is dropped off in front of the coffeehouse at the end of the chapter?

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