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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. Why does Grandfather not wake up?

2. How did Polly die?

3. What is wrong with Mattie?

4. Who is Mrs. Flagg?

5. What happens to Mattie at the end of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

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

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

4. What do Mattie and Grandfather learn at the newspaper office?

5. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?

6. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.

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

8. What has Grandfather been doing while Mattie has been recovering?

9. What scares Mattie more than anything at the end of Chapter 12?

10. What is the soldier's trick for finding water that Mattie uses?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mattie goes through several rites of passage in this novel. In your essay:

1) Describe at least two events that help usher her into adulthood.

2) Then discuss how these events help make her a "woman".

Be sure to cite several examples from the novel 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

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.

(see the answer keys)

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