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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 often does Mattie's mother need to be bathed?
(a) Every eight hours.
(b) Every two hours.
(c) Every six hours.
(d) Every four hours.

2. What does Mattie do once they get her mother upstairs in bed?
(a) She cries.
(b) She returns to work.
(c) She sits by her bed refusing to leave her side.
(d) She becomes angry.

3. Who will stay with Mrs. Cook?
(a) Dr. Kerr.
(b) Eliza.
(c) A nurse will be hired.
(d) Grandfather.

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

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6 what does Mattie vow never to complain about again?
(a) Cold days.
(b) Rainy days.
(c) Hot days.
(d) Working hard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bush Hill?

2. What happened to Matilda's father?

3. When Mattie's mother inquires about Colette's health what response does she get?

4. What does Matilda believe has made her mother so bitter?

5. Where does Grandfather spend the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

4. Where does the doctor suggest that the women and children should go?

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

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

7. Why does Mattie's mother want her to leave the room?

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

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

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

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