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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. Where does Mattie fall asleep?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) On the mattress with the children.
(c) On the floor.
(d) In the garden.

2. Who is in charge when Eliza is away?
(a) No one.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Mother Smith.

3. What has Mattie decided to do with her future?
(a) Reopen the coffeehouse.
(b) Marry Nathaniel.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Become a maid.

4. What does Mattie say her mother felt like?
(a) A warm blanket.
(b) A frail bird.
(c) A strong ox.
(d) A child.

5. What does Mattie get from the coffeehouse for Grandfather's burial?
(a) The portrait of Grandmother.
(b) His clothing.
(c) His sword.
(d) The strongbox.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mattie hurt her foot?

2. To whom is Mattie referring when she says, "Here is a familiar face,"?

3. What does Mattie ask Mr. Brown to do?

4. When does Eliza return home?

5. Why is Joseph crying?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Mattie's mother take a horse from the Ludingtons' farm and ride off?

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

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

6. What happens when Grandfather comes downstairs?

7. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

8. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

9. At the end of Chapter 18 what does Mattie daydream about?

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

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