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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the neighbors suggests that Mattie can find help for Nell by talking to whom?
(a) Reverend Allen.
(b) A nun.
(c) Mr. Brown.
(d) Someone at the orphan house.

2. What was keeping Mattie's mother from resting while she was in the country?
(a) She was uncomfortable.
(b) She needed a doctor.
(c) She was looking for Mattie.
(d) She was worried about the coffee house.

3. What does Mattie say her mother felt like?
(a) A warm blanket.
(b) A strong ox.
(c) A frail bird.
(d) A child.

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

5. What is the response of the customers in the coffeehouse when Mattie and her mother enter?
(a) They fall silent.
(b) They cry.
(c) They continue with their business.
(d) They cheer.

6. When Eliza tells Mattie that she can go home what is Mattie's response?
(a) She thanks Eliza and leaves.
(b) She wants to continue working.
(c) She becomes angry at the suggestion.
(d) She leaves and go to find Nathaniel.

7. What is the significance of Washington Square?
(a) It is where many fever victims are buried.
(b) It is where Washington is buried.
(c) It is where Washington died.
(d) There is no signifigance.

8. Who does Mattie walk home with?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Mrs. Epler.
(c) Mrs. Cook.
(d) Nathaniel Benson.

9. Where does Eliza take Mattie and Nell?
(a) To her brother's home.
(b) To the coffee house.
(c) To her mother's home.
(d) To the orphan house.

10. What did Mother Smith have sent to the cooperage?
(a) Food.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A preacher.
(d) A cart.

11. What do medical experts believe about Dr.Rush's treatments of the Yellow Fever patients?
(a) That the treatments saved many patients.
(b) That the treatments killed many patients.
(c) They they were revolutionary.
(d) That the treatments did not harm his patients.

12. What errand do the boys run?
(a) They get the newspapers.
(b) They get the sugar.
(c) They get the milk.
(d) They work in the garden.

13. Who does Mattie plan to visit on Sunday?
(a) Mother Smith.
(b) Mrs. Epler.
(c) Polly's mother.
(d) Joseph.

14. What is Grandfather's contribution to dinner?
(a) Bread.
(b) A salad.
(c) Hot tea.
(d) Coffee.

15. Why does Mrs. Ludington have to return to the farm?
(a) Her husband is ill.
(b) She promised her husband she would return quickly.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She does not enjoy the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most difficult for Mattie about helping Eliza?

2. Why does Eliza become angry at the apothecary?

3. Where does Mattie fall asleep?

4. What does Mattie get from the coffeehouse for Grandfather's burial?

5. Who is Nell?

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