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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 errand do the boys run?
(a) They get the sugar.
(b) They get the newspapers.
(c) They get the milk.
(d) They work in the garden.

2. What wakes Mattie?
(a) Silas.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Mice.
(d) Heavy footsteps outside the window.

3. Who comes back to town because of the frost?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Mattie's mother.
(d) Nathaniel.

4. How does Mattie keep the children out of the kitchen when she and Eliza are cooking?
(a) She gives them the butter churn.
(b) She gives them snacks.
(c) She threatens them.
(d) She gives them crayons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mattie fall asleep?

2. When Eliza tells Mattie that she can go home what is Mattie's response?

3. Who is with Mrs. Cook?

4. Who are Robert and William?

5. What has Mattie decided to do with her future?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

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

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