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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mattie react when she is reunited with Eliza?
(a) She cries and cries in Eliza's arms.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She faints.

2. What does Mattie decide she needs at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) Eliza.
(b) A bath.
(c) To open the coffee house.
(d) Medical attention.

3. What percent of Philadelphia's population was killed by the Yellow Fever epidemic?
(a) 10%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 5%.

4. What is proving to be a good way to get more customers to spend more money?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Nathaniel's art.
(c) Free samples.
(d) More options.

5. At the end of chapter 17 what does Mattie do?
(a) Offer up a prayer of Thanksgiving.
(b) Wash Silas.
(c) Go to the market to buy food.
(d) Sleep.

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

7. Who wakes Mattie up on her first morning back home?
(a) People on the street.
(b) Mice.
(c) Silas.
(d) Grandfather.

8. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?
(a) To the coffeehouse.
(b) To the market.
(c) To the orphan house.
(d) To Bush Hill.

9. What is tied to the handle of the front door to the coffeehouse?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A notice about the fever.
(c) Mail.
(d) A yellow piece of fabric.

10. Why does Eliza become angry at the apothecary?
(a) Because the prices are so high.
(b) Because the owner will not serve her.
(c) Because there is not enough of what she needs.
(d) Because she is tired.

11. What does Mattie see when she wakes up in the garden?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Frost.
(c) Mice.
(d) Eliza.

12. Who offers to design the handbill?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Nathaniel.
(c) Eliza.
(d) A customer at the coffee house.

13. How many people does Mr.Brown tell Mattie have died?
(a) Five thousand.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Five hundred.

14. What do Grandfather and Mattie find when they look upstairs?
(a) That Eliza is back.
(b) It has been looted.
(c) Everything is just as they left it.
(d) That Mrs. Cook is back.

15. Who comes back to town exciting all the customers?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) The priests.
(c) George Washington.
(d) The circus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a cooper?

2. What does Mattie demand from the gravediggers?

3. To whom is Mattie referring when she says, "Here is a familiar face,"?

4. What does the messenger bring?

5. Who does Nell cry out for?

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