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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 Bush Hill?
(a) A prison.
(b) A school.
(c) A mansion that has been turned into a hospital.
(d) A base camp for the army.

2. What doe Mattie use to make a pillow fro Grandfather?
(a) Timothy grass.
(b) Pine straw.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Her clothes.

3. What does Mattie daydream about?
(a) Water.
(b) Her mother coming back and being proud of Mattie.
(c) Food.
(d) Nathaniel Benson.

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

5. Who stays with Mattie through the night?
(a) She is alone.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Dr. Rowley.
(d) Grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Polly die?

2. How often does Mattie's mother need to be bathed?

3. Now that Polly has died who is responsible for her chores?

4. What does Matilda believe has made her mother so bitter?

5. Who will stay with Mrs. Cook?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

4. How many people have been predicted to die?

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

6. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?

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

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

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

10. What do some people in the coffeehouse suggest is causing the sickness?

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