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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 did Mother Smith have sent to the cooperage?

2. Why does Mrs. Ludington have to return to the farm?

3. How does Mattie escape the drunken soldier?

4. Who are Robert and William?

5. Where does Eliza go in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Mattie goes to Simon's house what is she looking for and what does she find?

2. Why does Mattie feel her mother would be proud of her?

3. Why is the Sharp home destroyed inside?

4. Why did Mattie's mother take a horse from the Ludingtons' farm and ride off?

5. What does Mattie give thanks for at the end of Chapter 17?

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

7. Why will Mattie and Eliza have to go through lawyers in order to be partners?

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

9. When does Mattie feel that there are ghosts nearby?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the themes FEVER, 1793 addresses is fear. Discuss what the novel has to say about this theme. Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas. Do you believe that the novel does a good job of expounding on this theme? Defend your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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