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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 decides to stay at the farm.
(b) She catches fish.
(c) She becomes ill and passes out.
(d) She trips and breaks her leg.

2. Now that Polly has died who is responsible for her chores?
(a) Eliza.
(b) A new serving girl has been hired.
(c) Mattie's mother.
(d) Mattie.

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

4. Why did Eliza want Mattie to cut her some asparagus grass?
(a) To help kill germs.
(b) To eat for a snack.
(c) To add to the soup she was making.
(d) To keep the flies away from her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Matilda and her mother argue about in this chapter?

2. Who does Mattie run into while she is out of the house?

3. What does Mattie say is her chief complaint?

4. What is wrong with Mattie?

5. Where is Mattie moved on the tenth day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

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

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

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

6. What scares Mattie more than anything at the end of Chapter 12?

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

8. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

9. How does Jeannine insult Mattie and her mother?

10. How does the author use foreshadowing to tell the reader that Colette may be ill?

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