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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. What is the one thing that Mattie vows never to do?
(a) Become a teacher.
(b) Become a nurse.
(c) Become a scullery maid.
(d) Become a cook.

2. When thinking about her grandfather, her mother and Eliza, Mattie decides that who has the most strong-headed opinions?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Mrs. Cook.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) They are an even match.

3. When Mattie's mother begins to worry about Mattie falling ill she suggests sending her where?
(a) To a friend's farm.
(b) To the mountains.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) To Europe.

4. What do the men in the coffeehouse say that they need to find for Mattie?
(a) Some more friends.
(b) Some new clothes.
(c) A husband.
(d) A new job.

5. Who is Mrs. Flagg?
(a) A friend of the family.
(b) The nurse that has been caring for her.
(c) Eliza's friend.
(d) A woman on the farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie say is her chief complaint?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 7 Mattie's mother pays her a compliment. What does she tell her?

3. What does Mattie find for them to eat?

4. Why is Mattie Leaving?

5. What does Mattie daydream about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Grandfather feels that Nathaniel Benson must do something before he will ever be able to amount to anything. What is it that he feels he should do?

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

3. What did Grandfather find when he returned home to the coffeehouse?

4. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

5. How would you characterize Mattie's feelings toward Nathaniel Benson after reading Chapter 5?

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

7. How does Mattie try to catch fish in the stream?

8. Why does Mrs. Bowles suggest to Mattie that she come work at the orphan house?

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

10. Why does Mattie distrust Dr. Rowley?

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