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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. Why does Eliza tell Mattie that she should eat slowly?
(a) Because Eliza wants to make sure she get some.
(b) So that she will not enough so much.
(c) So that Mattie will not get sick again.
(d) Because there is not enough food.

2. What does Mattie find at the end of Chapter 20?
(a) Her mother.
(b) A dog.
(c) Eliza.
(d) An orphaned young girl.

3. What does Mattie ask Mr. Brown to do?
(a) Take her home and feed her.
(b) Place an ad to help her find her mother.
(c) Let her work for him.
(d) Help her find Eliza.

4. Who has come into the coffeehouse?
(a) Doctors.
(b) People wanting coffee.
(c) Robbers.
(d) Neighbors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers to design the handbill?

2. What is the response of the customers in the coffeehouse when Mattie and her mother enter?

3. Where does Eliza go in the morning?

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

5. How does Mattie react when she is reunited with Eliza?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

3. Why does Mattie tell Eliza all of the details about what she has been through?

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

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

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

7. What is Eliza's reaction when she sees Mattie?

8. Why does Grandfather allow Mattie to order him to bed when they reach the coffeehouse?

9. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

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

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