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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 friends.
(b) Matilda and her mother do not have a relationship.
(c) Matilda and her mother are more like sisters than mother and daughter.
(d) Matilda feels like a servant.

2. How did Polly die?
(a) She drowned.
(b) She was struck by a sudden fever.
(c) She has been sick for a long time.
(d) She was run down by a horse.

3. What do Matilda and her mother argue about in this chapter?
(a) Matilda wants a new dress and her mother says no.
(b) Matilda does not want to work and her mother is making her.
(c) Matilda wants to go away to school and her mother does not want her to go.
(d) Matilda wants to go to the funeral and her mother does not want her to go.

4. Who does Grandfather compare Mattie to?
(a) Her mother, Mrs. Cook.
(b) Polly.
(c) Himself.
(d) Eliza.

5. Why has business increased at the coffeehouse over the past week?
(a) People want to eat out instead of eating at home for safety.
(b) People are doing more of their business inland, away from the river, due to fear of disease.
(c) People are celebrating.
(d) People are stocking up in case they have to stay home for several days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing that Mattie vows never to do?

2. Why does Grandfather not wake up?

3. Why Eliza so important to the Coffeehouse?

4. Where does Grandfather spend the night?

5. What does Grandfather promise Mrs. Flagg?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

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

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

5. Why does Mattie distrust Dr. Rowley?

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

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

8. Describe Grandfather as he leaves on the wagon.

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

10. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

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