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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. Where does Nell sleep?
(a) With the twins.
(b) With Mrs. Cook.
(c) With Mattie.
(d) With Eliza.

2. What errand do the boys run?
(a) They get the sugar.
(b) They get the newspapers.
(c) They work in the garden.
(d) They get the milk.

3. What does Mattie decide is the only way to find Eliza?
(a) She places an ad in the paper.
(b) She posts posters.
(c) She yells, "Eliza!" as loud as possible into the street.
(d) She goes door to door.

4. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?
(a) To the orphan house.
(b) To the coffeehouse.
(c) To the market.
(d) To Bush Hill.

5. Where does Eliza go in the morning?
(a) To look for Mattie's mother.
(b) To the market.
(c) To care for the sick.
(d) To the coffee house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What insect spreads Yellow Fever?

2. What does Elza tell Mattie about Mrs. Cook?

3. What does Mattie get from the coffeehouse for Grandfather's burial?

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

5. What does Mattie decide she needs at the beginning of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why will Mattie and Eliza have to go through lawyers in order to be partners?

8. Why does Mattie say that it is more difficult to care for children?

9. Why does Mattie feel her mother would be proud of her?

10. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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