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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. After reading Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 how would you characterize Matilda's relationship with her mother?
(a) Matilda and her mother are more like sisters than mother and daughter.
(b) Matilda feels like a servant.
(c) Matilda and her mother do not have a relationship.
(d) Matilda and her mother are friends.

2. What does Mattie worry her mother wanted more than her?
(a) Her father.
(b) Twins.
(c) A servant.
(d) Sons.

3. Who will stay with Mrs. Cook?
(a) Dr. Kerr.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Eliza.
(d) A nurse will be hired.

4. Who do Grandfather and Eliza bring to help the next morning?
(a) Dr. Rowley.
(b) The mayor.
(c) Mr. Carris
(d) Dr. Kerr.

5. What does Matilda believe has made her mother so bitter?
(a) She has always been bitter.
(b) Polly's death.
(c) Having to work hard.
(d) The death of her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of lessons does Grandfather give Mattie?

2. What does Mattie say is her chief complaint?

3. Who is Polly?

4. In what city does Chapter 1 take place?

5. Where are the Ogilvie sons?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Grandfather's response to the clerk when he suggests sending Mattie to the orphan hose?

3. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

4. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?

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

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

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

8. How many people have been predicted to die?

9. 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?

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

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