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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 does Mattie do to keep herself from crying?
(a) She counts to ten.
(b) She takes deep breathes.
(c) She does not stop herself.
(d) She bites the inside of her cheek.

2. When thinking about her grandfather, her mother and Eliza, Mattie decides that who has the most strong-headed opinions?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Mrs. Cook.
(d) They are an even match.

3. In what city does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Detroit.
(b) New York City.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. How does Mattie reacting to leaving?
(a) She is excited.
(b) She does not care one way or another.
(c) She is scared.
(d) She is upset and does not want to be away from her mother.

5. How many people have died in the city within the first week of the fever?
(a) 10
(b) 64
(c) 88
(d) 55

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 6 what does Mattie vow never to complain about again?

2. What type of meeting is Eliza attending?

3. What doe Mattie use to make a pillow fro Grandfather?

4. Matilda and her mother live above what type of business?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

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

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

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

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

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