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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 wakes Mattie?
(a) Silas.
(b) Mice.
(c) Heavy footsteps outside the window.
(d) Grandfather.

2. What did Mother Smith have sent to the cooperage?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A preacher.
(c) A cart.
(d) Food.

3. What does Mattie's mother fuss about?
(a) Eliza working in the garden.
(b) Mattie spending time with Nathaniel.
(c) Mattie's clothes.
(d) The boys running errands alone.

4. What has Mattie decided to do with her future?
(a) Become a maid.
(b) Marry Nathaniel.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Reopen the coffeehouse.

5. Where does Mattie fall asleep?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) On the floor.
(c) On the mattress with the children.
(d) In the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will be her partner?

2. Who does Mattie walk home with?

3. When Eliza tells Mattie that she can go home what is Mattie's response?

4. What does Eliza see when she looks at the boy's eyes?

5. What was keeping Mattie's mother from resting while she was in the country?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What type of information does Mr. Brown say that he is now reporting in his newspaper?

3. How are people who left the city acting differently from those who stayed in the city?

4. Find two examples of how people showed fear and panic during the epidemic.

5. What is Mattie and Nell's relationship at this point?

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

7. Why does Mattie feel like a traitor when she is walking Nell to the orphan house?

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

9. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

10. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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