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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 is most difficult for Mattie about helping Eliza?
(a) The sights.
(b) The sounds.
(c) The smell.
(d) The heartache.

2. What insect spreads Yellow Fever?
(a) The fly.
(b) The wasp.
(c) The mosquito.
(d) The bee.

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

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

5. What does Mattie find in the garden that makes her dance?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Beans.
(c) Squash.
(d) Tomatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mother Smith have sent to the cooperage?

2. How does Mattie hurt her foot?

3. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?

4. What percent of Philadelphia's population was killed by the Yellow Fever epidemic?

5. What is the significance of Washington Square?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

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

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

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

9. Why does Mattie tell Eliza that the children should not be bled?

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

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