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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 does Mattie suggest doing tomorrow?
(a) Moving their camp tomorrow to the willow tree.
(b) Finding a doctor.
(c) Walking towards the country.
(d) Finding more food.

2. How would you characterize Matilda's reaction to Polly's death?
(a) Shock.
(b) Relief.
(c) Uncaring.
(d) Hysteria.

3. Who is dropped off in front of the coffeehouse at the end of the chapter?
(a) Mattie.
(b) Mrs. Cook.
(c) Nathaniel Benson.
(d) Grandfather.

4. How does Mattie feel about the invitation?
(a) She does not want to go.
(b) She is afraid of catching the fever.
(c) She does not want to go.
(d) She is excited.

5. How does this new person help Mrs. Cook?
(a) He says that there is nothing he can do to help.
(b) He cuts her and lets her bleed.
(c) He gives her a shot.
(d) He prescribes antibiotics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie do to keep herself from crying?

2. How do the Ogilvie daughters treat Mattie?

3. How long have Mattie and Grandfather gone?

4. Who is Susannah?

5. Who stays with Mattie through the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe what the city looks like as Mattie and Grandfather ride the wagon through it.

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

5. What do Mattie and her mother argue about at the end of Chapter 3?

6. Describe Grandfather as he leaves on the wagon.

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

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

9. What is the soldier's trick for finding water that Mattie uses?

10. How many people have been predicted to die?

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