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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. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?

2. Who is the first person up at the coffeehouse?

3. Why is Joseph crying?

4. What does Mattie do for clean clothes?

5. Why did the tall man want to catch Mattie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mother Smith suggest that Mattie is doing more harm than good to Nell?

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

3. What is Mattie and Nell's relationship at this point?

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

5. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Mattie feel like a traitor when she is walking Nell to the orphan house?

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

Friendship is an important topic in this novel.

1) Describe the different ways friendship is presented in the book in detail

2) Then discuss the message the author is trying to make about friendships. In other words, what is her view of friendships? What does she think is important in a friendship? What does she do to show the reader this is her belief?

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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