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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. Where is Mattie moved on the tenth day?
(a) To the barn.
(b) To a wagon.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) To a field.

2. What happens to Colette at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) She cries because she does not want to get married.
(b) She admits to being lazy and wanting to read novels all day.
(c) She storms out angrily.
(d) She collapses with the fever.

3. What does Grandfather promise Mrs. Flagg?
(a) To take her to a ball.
(b) A buy her dinner.
(c) A house.
(d) To marry her.

4. What type of fruit does Mattie find on her walk back to Grandfather?
(a) Apples.
(b) Pears.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Oranges.

5. Why does Mattie not tell her Grandfather about her fishing experience?
(a) She does not want to make him feel more hunger by thinking of fish.
(b) Because she does not want to share her secret way of catching fish.
(c) She does not want to admit defeat.
(d) She does not want to share the fish she caught.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie say is her chief complaint?

2. Who is dropped off in front of the coffeehouse at the end of the chapter?

3. Who is Susannah?

4. Before Mattie's grandfather came to live with them what was his profession?

5. How does Mattie reacting to leaving?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?

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

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

4. Describe Grandfather as he leaves on the wagon.

5. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

6. How many people have been predicted to die?

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

8. Has Mattie's mother always been "a tired and bitter captain"?

9. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

10. What does Grandfather want Mattie to do with the money he gives her?

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