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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 Eliza take Mattie and Nell?
(a) To her mother's home.
(b) To her brother's home.
(c) To the coffee house.
(d) To the orphan house.

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

3. What is the response of the customers in the coffeehouse when Mattie and her mother enter?
(a) They fall silent.
(b) They cheer.
(c) They continue with their business.
(d) They cry.

4. At the end of chapter 17 what does Mattie do?
(a) Go to the market to buy food.
(b) Wash Silas.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Offer up a prayer of Thanksgiving.

5. Who offers to design the handbill?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Nathaniel.
(c) Joseph.
(d) A customer at the coffee house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mattie keep the children out of the kitchen when she and Eliza are cooking?

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

3. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?

4. What does the messenger bring?

5. Who is Nell?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

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

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

4. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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

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