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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie find in the garden that makes her dance?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Beans.
(d) Squash.

2. What did Mother Smith have sent to the cooperage?
(a) A cart.
(b) Food.
(c) A preacher.
(d) A doctor.

3. Who does Mattie walk home with?
(a) Mrs. Epler.
(b) Nathaniel Benson.
(c) Mrs. Cook.
(d) Eliza.

4. How does Mattie keep the children quiet in the morning?
(a) She bribes them with candy.
(b) She feeds them breakfast outside.
(c) She threatens them.
(d) She takes them to the market.

5. When Eliza and Mattie get back to Joseph's what do they find?
(a) Mrs. Cook is there waiting for them.
(b) The twins and Nell have fallen ill.
(c) Joseph is sick again.
(d) Robbers have come and stolen everything.

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

7. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A french aeronaut.
(d) A lawyer.

8. One of the neighbors suggests that Mattie can find help for Nell by talking to whom?
(a) A nun.
(b) Mr. Brown.
(c) Reverend Allen.
(d) Someone at the orphan house.

9. Why does Eliza become angry at the apothecary?
(a) Because the owner will not serve her.
(b) Because there is not enough of what she needs.
(c) Because the prices are so high.
(d) Because she is tired.

10. What does Mattie do for clean clothes?
(a) Sews some.
(b) Eliza brings her some.
(c) Borrows some from her mother.
(d) Borrows some from a neighbor.

11. Why does Eliza tell Mattie that she should eat slowly?
(a) So that Mattie will not get sick again.
(b) So that she will not enough so much.
(c) Because there is not enough food.
(d) Because Eliza wants to make sure she get some.

12. What do Grandfather and Mattie find when they walk into the coffeehouse?
(a) That Mrs. Cook is back.
(b) That is Eliza is there.
(c) It has been looted.
(d) That everything is just as they left it.

13. When is Mattie's favorite time to take a walk with Nathaniel?
(a) In the morning.
(b) Late at night.
(c) After lunch.
(d) Just before sundown.

14. Who will be her partner?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Nathaniel.
(d) Mother Smith.

15. What is the significance of Washington Square?
(a) It is where Washington died.
(b) It is where Washington is buried.
(c) There is no signifigance.
(d) It is where many fever victims are buried.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in charge when Eliza is away?

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

3. How does Mattie hurt her foot?

4. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?

5. What does Mattie see when she wakes up in the garden?

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