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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. When is Mattie's favorite time to take a walk with Nathaniel?
(a) After lunch.
(b) In the morning.
(c) Just before sundown.
(d) Late at night.

2. What does Eliza see when she looks at the boy's eyes?
(a) They are normal.
(b) They are blood-shot and yellow-stained.
(c) They will not open.
(d) They are watering.

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

4. How does Mattie keep the children quiet in the morning?
(a) She threatens them.
(b) She takes them to the market.
(c) She bribes them with candy.
(d) She feeds them breakfast outside.

5. What is the response of the customers in the coffeehouse when Mattie and her mother enter?
(a) They fall silent.
(b) They cry.
(c) They continue with their business.
(d) They cheer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mattie decide she needs at the beginning of Chapter 18?

3. Who comes back to town because of the frost?

4. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?

5. What is tied to the handle of the front door to the coffeehouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Mattie feel like a traitor when she is walking Nell to the orphan house?

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

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