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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 does Mattie help the man pushing the cart?
(a) She gets a man from the street to help.
(b) She takes one of the handles.
(c) She does not help.
(d) She fixes the cart.

2. What is tied to the handle of the front door to the coffeehouse?
(a) A yellow piece of fabric.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) Mail.
(d) A notice about the fever.

3. What does Mattie say her mother felt like?
(a) A frail bird.
(b) A child.
(c) A warm blanket.
(d) A strong ox.

4. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?
(a) A french aeronaut.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

5. Who does Mattie think she sees when she is walking to get help for Nell?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Nathaniel Benson.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her Grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Grandfather and Mattie find when they look upstairs?

2. Why does Joseph not come to the coffeehouse?

3. What do medical experts believe about Dr.Rush's treatments of the Yellow Fever patients?

4. What is Grandfather's contribution to dinner?

5. How is Nell acting throughout Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did some people wait until George Washington returned to come back to the city?

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

3. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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

5. Does Yellow Fever still exist and if so where?

6. What does Mattie find when she goes to the market?

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

8. Why does Mattie promise her mother that she will not wear her clothes.

9. Why is the Sharp home destroyed inside?

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

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