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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 many people does Mr.Brown tell Mattie have died?
(a) Five thousand.
(b) Three thousand.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) One thousand.

2. What do Grandfather and Mattie find when they walk into the coffeehouse?
(a) That is Eliza is there.
(b) That Mrs. Cook is back.
(c) That everything is just as they left it.
(d) It has been looted.

3. What was Mattie dreaming about at the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) Roast beef, vegetables, and bread.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Bush Hill.
(d) Nathaniel Benson.

4. Where do Mattie and Eliza place the mattress?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) On the tables.
(c) In the garden.
(d) On the floor.

5. What is Grandfather's contribution to dinner?
(a) A salad.
(b) Hot tea.
(c) Bread.
(d) Coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?

2. What does Mattie decide is the only way to find Eliza?

3. Why does Eliza tell Mattie that she should eat slowly?

4. Why does Mrs. Ludington have to return to the farm?

5. What is the significance of Washington Square?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

2. What does Eliza suggest that Mattie and Nell should do until the epidemic is over?

3. When Mattie goes to Simon's house what is she looking for and what does she find?

4. Why does Mother Smith suggest that Mattie is doing more harm than good to Nell?

5. When does Mattie feel that there are ghosts nearby?

6. What does the short excerpt at the beginning of the chapter foreshadow?

7. Why can the children not stay at the cooperage?

8. At the end of Chapter 18 what does Mattie daydream about?

9. Why did Mattie's mother take a horse from the Ludingtons' farm and ride off?

10. Why does Grandfather allow Mattie to order him to bed when they reach the coffeehouse?

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