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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Mattie given at the market?
(a) Corn.
(b) Some bread.
(c) Two hens and some eggs.
(d) A pumpkin.

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

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

5. Why is Grandfather unable to hang his sword above the fireplace?
(a) Because his arms are shaking.
(b) Because he is afraid that it will get stolen.
(c) Because it has been stolen.
(d) Because it wants to keep on him in case he needs it.

6. Where do Mattie and Eliza place the mattress?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) On the tables.
(d) On the floor.

7. When will she start her plan for the future?
(a) Next month.
(b) Next week.
(c) Next year.
(d) Tomorrow.

8. When was the Free African Society founded?
(a) 1755.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1732.

9. What does Mattie decide is the only way to find Eliza?
(a) She goes door to door.
(b) She yells, "Eliza!" as loud as possible into the street.
(c) She posts posters.
(d) She places an ad in the paper.

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

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

12. To whom is Mattie referring when she says, "Here is a familiar face,"?
(a) Silas.
(b) King George.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Nathaniel.

13. Who is Joseph?
(a) The farmer at the market.
(b) Nell's father.
(c) Eliza's husband.
(d) Eliza's brother.

14. What is most difficult for Mattie about helping Eliza?
(a) The sounds.
(b) The heartache.
(c) The smell.
(d) The sights.

15. Who is with Mrs. Cook?
(a) Mrs. Ludington.
(b) Mother Smith.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Mrs. Epler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?

2. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?

3. Why does Eliza become angry at the apothecary?

4. What is the one thing Mattie says Mother Smith does well?

5. Who is Nell?

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