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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. Why has Mrs. Ogilvie been lonely?
(a) All of her friends are angry with her.
(b) All of her friends have gone to the country because of the fever.
(c) All of her friends have moved away.
(d) She has never had any friends.

2. Where do Mattie and her grandfather go?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To the country.
(c) To the market.
(d) To the newspaper office.

3. What is the one thing that Mattie vows never to do?
(a) Become a teacher.
(b) Become a nurse.
(c) Become a cook.
(d) Become a scullery maid.

4. Who is Mrs. Flagg?
(a) A woman on the farm.
(b) Eliza's friend.
(c) A friend of the family.
(d) The nurse that has been caring for her.

5. Why does Grandfather think that he is a fool?
(a) For bringing Mattie to the country.
(b) For not paying more attention to the fever and not listening to Mattie's mother..
(c) For bringing King George along.
(d) For trusting the farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Eliza go home at night?

2. Why has business increased at the coffeehouse over the past week?

3. Why did Eliza want Mattie to cut her some asparagus grass?

4. Who do Grandfather and Eliza bring to help the next morning?

5. How did Mattie get to Bush Hill?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

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

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

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

5. How does Jeannine insult Mattie and her mother?

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

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

8. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

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

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

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