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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. When Eliza and Mattie get back to Joseph's what do they find?

2. What errand do the boys run?

3. What does the messenger bring?

4. What does Mattie say her mother felt like?

5. What is proving to be a good way to get more customers to spend more money?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Find two examples of how people showed fear and panic during the epidemic.

3. What does Eliza suggest that Mattie and Nell should do until the epidemic is over?

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

5. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

6. At the end of Chapter 18 what does Mattie daydream about?

7. Why did some people wait until George Washington returned to come back to the city?

8. Why is the Sharp home destroyed inside?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At times throughout the novel Mattie and Eliza depend on one another. Look back through the novel and:

1) Describe how their relationship evolves.

2) Discuss the impact that their relationship has at each point in the novel.

Use specific examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

One of the themes FEVER, 1793 addresses is perseverance. 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 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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