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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. How long have Mattie and Grandfather gone?
(a) 7 days.
(b) 8 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 6 days.

2. What does Mattie suggest doing tomorrow?
(a) Finding more food.
(b) Finding a doctor.
(c) Walking towards the country.
(d) Moving their camp tomorrow to the willow tree.

3. Where are the Ogilvie sons?
(a) At a meeting with the mayor.
(b) At war.
(c) In the country.
(d) Away at school.

4. What do the men in the coffeehouse say that they need to find for Mattie?
(a) Some more friends.
(b) Some new clothes.
(c) A new job.
(d) A husband.

5. What type of meeting is Eliza attending?
(a) The Society to Cure the Fever.
(b) The Free African Society.
(c) A church meeting.
(d) The Culinary Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Eliza go home at night?

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

3. How did Polly die?

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

5. Who else is in the wagon with Mattie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?

4. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

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

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

7. What do Mattie and her mother argue about at the end of Chapter 3?

8. Why does Mattie distrust Dr. Rowley?

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

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

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