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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Mattie?
(a) She has the stomach flu.
(b) She has Yellow Fever.
(c) Nothing, she is fine.
(d) She has the chicken pox.

2. Who will stay with Mrs. Cook?
(a) Dr. Kerr.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Eliza.
(d) A nurse will be hired.

3. How long have Mattie and Grandfather gone?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 8 days.

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

5. What happens to Colette at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) She collapses with the fever.
(b) She cries because she does not want to get married.
(c) She admits to being lazy and wanting to read novels all day.
(d) She storms out angrily.

6. Who does Grandfather compare Mattie to?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Himself.
(c) Polly.
(d) Her mother, Mrs. Cook.

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

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

9. What does Matilda believe has made her mother so bitter?
(a) Polly's death.
(b) She has always been bitter.
(c) Having to work hard.
(d) The death of her father.

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

11. Who is Mrs. Flagg?
(a) A woman on the farm.
(b) Eliza's friend.
(c) The nurse that has been caring for her.
(d) A friend of the family.

12. Why Eliza so important to the Coffeehouse?
(a) She handles all of the advertising.
(b) She takes care of all of the paper work.
(c) She brews the best coffee.
(d) Matilda's mother cannot cook and Eliza is an excellent cook.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grandfather not wake up?

2. What does Mattie do once they get her mother upstairs in bed?

3. What wakes Mattie up at the beginning of Chapter 13?

4. Who is leaving with Mattie?

5. What do the men in the coffeehouse say that they need to find for Mattie?

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