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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 is Mattie's favorite time to take a walk with Nathaniel?

2. Where does Eliza take Mattie and Nell?

3. Who does Mattie plan to visit on Sunday?

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

5. What does Mattie decide is the only way to find Eliza?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Grandfather allow Mattie to order him to bed when they reach the coffeehouse?

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

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

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

7. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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