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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 must Mattie do before enjoying her coffee?
(a) Cook breakfast.
(b) Set the breakfast table.
(c) Sweep the kitchen.
(d) Fold the linens.

2. What percent of Philadelphia's population was killed by the Yellow Fever epidemic?
(a) 25%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 10%.

3. One of the neighbors suggests that Mattie can find help for Nell by talking to whom?
(a) Mr. Brown.
(b) Someone at the orphan house.
(c) Reverend Allen.
(d) A nun.

4. What is the significance of Washington Square?
(a) There is no signifigance.
(b) It is where many fever victims are buried.
(c) It is where Washington died.
(d) It is where Washington is buried.

5. When Eliza tells Mattie that she can go home what is Mattie's response?
(a) She wants to continue working.
(b) She becomes angry at the suggestion.
(c) She thanks Eliza and leaves.
(d) She leaves and go to find Nathaniel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie find in the garden that makes her dance?

2. Who is Nell?

3. What is proving to be a good way to get more customers to spend more money?

4. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?

5. Who is Joseph?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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

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

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

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