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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie want to deliver to the State House?
(a) Coupons.
(b) Free coffee.
(c) Free cakes.
(d) Take-out menus.

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

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

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

5. What was Mattie dreaming about at the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Nathaniel Benson.
(c) Roast beef, vegetables, and bread.
(d) Bush Hill.

6. Who sends Mattie, Eliza, and the children a lot of food?
(a) Nathaniel.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Mrs. Cook.
(d) The church.

7. What does Mattie get from the coffeehouse for Grandfather's burial?
(a) The strongbox.
(b) The portrait of Grandmother.
(c) His clothing.
(d) His sword.

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

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

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

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

12. Who are Robert and William?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Nell's brothers.
(c) The robbers.
(d) Eliza's nephews.

13. Why did the tall man want to catch Mattie?
(a) They want to help her.
(b) They think that she has the fever.
(c) They are trying to kill her.
(d) She will tell them where the money is hidden.

14. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A french aeronaut.

15. Who does Mattie think she sees when she is walking to get help for Nell?
(a) Her Grandfather.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Nathaniel Benson.
(d) Eliza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of Washington Square?

2. Who does Mattie walk home with?

3. When Eliza and Mattie get back to Joseph's what do they find?

4. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?

5. Who is in charge when Eliza is away?

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