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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 treatment did the doctor prescribe for Mrs. Cook?
(a) To get back to work.
(b) To live a life of leisure.
(c) Several medications.
(d) To exercise regularly.

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

3. Who does Mattie think she sees when she is walking to get help for Nell?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Her Grandfather.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Nathaniel Benson.

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

5. Who does Mattie plan to visit on Sunday?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Mother Smith.
(c) Polly's mother.
(d) Mrs. Epler.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eliza see when she looks at the boy's eyes?

3. Where does Nell sleep?

4. One of the neighbors suggests that Mattie can find help for Nell by talking to whom?

5. What does Mattie see when she wakes up in the garden?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

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

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

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

6. Why is the Sharp home destroyed inside?

7. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

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

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

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

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