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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 happens to Mattie at the end of the chapter?
(a) She becomes ill and passes out.
(b) She catches fish.
(c) She trips and breaks her leg.
(d) She decides to stay at the farm.

2. 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.

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

4. Before Mattie's grandfather came to live with them what was his profession?
(a) He was a chef.
(b) He was an army captain.
(c) He was a carpenter.
(d) He was the captain of a ship.

5. Why is Mattie Leaving?
(a) She wants to be the Ogilvie family.
(b) Dr. Kerr says that it is the only way to keep her safe.
(c) She wants to be with Nathaniel Benson.
(d) She decides that it is the only way she will be safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is King George?

2. Why does Grandfather think that he is a fool?

3. How does this new person help Mrs. Cook?

4. Why does Mrs. Epler, the egg vendor, say that people are dying?

5. What do the men in the coffeehouse say that they need to find for Mattie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

3. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

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

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

6. What three things does a soldier need to fight?

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

8. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

9. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?

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

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