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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Epler, the egg vendor, say that people are dying?
(a) Because they are weak.
(b) Because they are sinners who do not attend church.
(c) Because they are dirty.
(d) Because they have bad luck.

2. What does Mattie demand from the gravediggers?
(a) That they dig a separate grave for Grandfather.
(b) That they not bury Grandfather without a prayer.
(c) That they bury him immediately.
(d) That they put the portrait with Grandfather.

3. What doe Mattie use to make a pillow fro Grandfather?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Her clothes.
(c) Pine straw.
(d) Timothy grass.

4. What does Mattie do once they get her mother upstairs in bed?
(a) She cries.
(b) She sits by her bed refusing to leave her side.
(c) She becomes angry.
(d) She returns to work.

5. What type of meeting is Eliza attending?
(a) A church meeting.
(b) The Free African Society.
(c) The Society to Cure the Fever.
(d) The Culinary Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Grandfather and Mattie find when they look upstairs?

2. Why did Eliza want Mattie to cut her some asparagus grass?

3. What is Grandfather's contribution to dinner?

4. Who is Mrs. Flagg?

5. What does Mattie decide she needs at the beginning of Chapter 18?

(see the answer key)

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