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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 how would you characterize Matilda's relationship with her mother?

2. What does Mattie go to find once Grandfather has fallen asleep?

3. What does Mattie daydream about?

4. How long have Mattie and Grandfather gone?

5. Why Eliza so important to the Coffeehouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the church bell ring twenty-one times?

2. How does the author use foreshadowing to tell the reader that Colette may be ill?

3. How does Mattie try to catch fish in the stream?

4. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

5. Has Mattie's mother always been "a tired and bitter captain"?

6. Why does Mattie's mother want her to leave the room?

7. What does Grandfather want Mattie to do with the money he gives her?

8. How many people have been predicted to die?

9. What do Mattie and her mother argue about at the end of Chapter 3?

10. What did Grandfather find when he returned home to the coffeehouse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Eliza and Mrs. Cook. In your essay:

1) Describe Eliza (focus on her physical appearance as well as her personality).

2) Describe Mrs. Cook focus on her physical appearance as well as her personality).

3) Analyze their similarities and differences.

Use specific examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

FEVER, 1793 presents and comments on death and disease.

1) Discuss how each of these ideas is presented in the novel.

2) Then examine the author's view on the topics. What commentary do you think she is trying to make about death and disease? Why?

Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 26 Mattie states, "Yellow Fever had certainly done away with vanity." What do you think she means by this statement? How would you have reacted if your "vanity" was taken away by disease? Why?

Be sure to cite specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.

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