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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Matilda and her mother argue about in this chapter?
(a) Matilda does not want to work and her mother is making her.
(b) Matilda wants to go to the funeral and her mother does not want her to go.
(c) Matilda wants to go away to school and her mother does not want her to go.
(d) Matilda wants a new dress and her mother says no.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 7 Mattie's mother pays her a compliment. What does she tell her?
(a) That she is a wonderful daughter.
(b) That she is pretty.
(c) That she is funny.
(d) That she is smart.

3. Why must Eliza go home at night?
(a) She wants to go home.
(b) Her brother's family is expecting her.
(c) She is too tired to help Mrs. Cook and Eliza.
(d) She is afraid of becoming ill.

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

5. Who is Polly?
(a) A slave.
(b) Matilda's sister.
(c) Matilda's best friend.
(d) The serving girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe Mattie use to make a pillow fro Grandfather?

2. What happens to Colette at the end of Chapter 7?

3. Why is Mattie Leaving?

4. What does Mattie compare the clerk to?

5. When Mattie leaves her bed for the first time alone where does she go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Grandfather's response to the clerk when he suggests sending Mattie to the orphan hose?

2. How does Mattie try to catch fish in the stream?

3. Why does Mattie's mother want her to leave the room?

4. What does Nathaniel Benson send Mattie?

5. Has Mattie's mother always been "a tired and bitter captain"?

6. Who are the horsemen that stop the wagon?

7. What scares Mattie more than anything at the end of Chapter 12?

8. What is the soldier's trick for finding water that Mattie uses?

9. How many people have been predicted to die?

10. Why does the church bell ring twenty-one times?

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