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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. How regularly did Mattie bathe before the fever?

2. What does Mattie's mother fuss about?

3. Where does Nell sleep?

4. Who is Joseph?

5. Who wakes Mattie up on her first morning back home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

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

7. How did the Ludingtons try to find Mattie?

8. Why does Mattie say that it is more difficult to care for children?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Mattie goes through several rites of passage in this novel. In your essay:

1) Describe at least two events that help usher her into adulthood.

2) Then discuss how these events help make her a "woman".

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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