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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. What type of lessons does Grandfather give Mattie?
2. Who does Mattie run into while she is out of the house?
3. Why does Mrs. Epler, the egg vendor, say that people are dying?
4. Why does Mattie handle the bills and the exchange of money?
5. After reading Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 how would you characterize Matilda's relationship with her mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?
2. What do some people in the coffeehouse suggest is causing the sickness?
3. How does the author use foreshadowing to tell the reader that Colette may be ill?
4. What do Mattie and her mother argue about at the end of Chapter 3?
5. Grandfather feels that Nathaniel Benson must do something before he will ever be able to amount to anything. What is it that he feels he should do?
6. Who is Mr. Stephen Girard?
7. The business at the coffeehouse has improved due to the fever therefore the Cook family has some extra money. Each member of the family has a different idea of what should be done with the money. What are their ideas?
8. Describe Mattie's morning in Chapter 1.
9. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?
10. What is Grandfather's response to the clerk when he suggests sending Mattie to the orphan hose?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mattie and her mother's relationship develops and their bond is strengthened through absence.
1) Describe their relationship at several points in the novel.
2) Explain how their relationship changes.
3) Analyze why this change happens. What causes it to happen?
Use evidence from the novel to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
There are several characters who influence the person that Mattie becomes. Select the two characters who you believe have the greatest impact on her development and:
1) Describe each character's actions or beliefs as they relate to Mattie.
2) Discuss the impact of this character on Mattie's life and personality.
3) Discuss why you selected each particular character. What about each character made him/her more of an influence on Mattie than others?
Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.
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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