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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Mattie allowed to go when she leaves the house?
(a) To see her friend Nathaniel Benson.
(b) The market for supplies for the coffeehouse.
(c) The blacksmith's to talk to Matthew.
(d) To the river for a swim.

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

4. Why does Mattie not tell her Grandfather about her fishing experience?
(a) Because she does not want to share her secret way of catching fish.
(b) She does not want to make him feel more hunger by thinking of fish.
(c) She does not want to admit defeat.
(d) She does not want to share the fish she caught.

5. Who is Polly?
(a) Matilda's sister.
(b) The serving girl.
(c) A slave.
(d) Matilda's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie daydream about?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 6 what does Mattie vow never to complain about again?

3. Who does Grandfather compare Mattie to?

4. Who do Grandfather and Eliza bring to help the next morning?

5. Why does Mattie think that the bugs are bothering them at the beginning of Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

2. The business at the coffeehouse has improved due to the fever therefore the Cook family has some extra money. Each member of the family has a different idea of what should be done with the money. What are their ideas?

3. Why does the church bell ring twenty-one times?

4. Why does Mattie's mother want her to leave the room?

5. What does Grandfather want Mattie to do with the money he gives her?

6. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

7. Why does Eliza feel that Philadelphia is the best city for free African Americans to live?

8. What has Grandfather been doing while Mattie has been recovering?

9. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

10. What do Mattie and Grandfather learn at the newspaper office?

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