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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 does Mattie decide she needs at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) To open the coffee house.
(b) Medical attention.
(c) A bath.
(d) Eliza.

2. How many people does Mr.Brown tell Mattie have died?
(a) Five thousand.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) One thousand.

3. Who is Joseph?
(a) Eliza's husband.
(b) The farmer at the market.
(c) Nell's father.
(d) Eliza's brother.

4. When was the Free African Society founded?
(a) 1732.
(b) 1755.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1787.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nell want from Eliza?

2. Why did the tall man want to catch Mattie?

3. What does Mattie say her mother felt like?

4. Who else returns at the end of Chapter 28?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

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

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

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

5. Why is the Sharp home destroyed inside?

6. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

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

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

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

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

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