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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. How does Mattie help the man pushing the cart?
(a) She fixes the cart.
(b) She takes one of the handles.
(c) She does not help.
(d) She gets a man from the street to help.

2. Where do Mattie and Eliza take the children?
(a) To Bush Hill.
(b) To the coffeehouse.
(c) To the orphan house.
(d) To the market.

3. What does Nell want from Eliza?
(a) Food.
(b) A kiss.
(c) To play.
(d) A home.

4. Why does Joseph not come to the coffeehouse?
(a) He is coming the next day.
(b) Because he does not agree with taking them to the coffee house.
(c) Because he cannot bare it.
(d) Because he is still ill.

5. Who wakes Mattie up on her first morning back home?
(a) Mice.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) People on the street.
(d) Silas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elza tell Mattie about Mrs. Cook?

2. At the end of chapter 17 what does Mattie do?

3. What is the significance of Washington Square?

4. Who is Jean Pierre Blanchard?

5. What does Mattie get from the coffeehouse for Grandfather's burial?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mattie get rid of the robbers?

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

3. Why does Mattie tell Eliza that the children should not be bled?

4. What does the short excerpt at the beginning of the chapter foreshadow?

5. Why does Mattie feel her mother would be proud of her?

6. How are people who left the city acting differently from those who stayed in the city?

7. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

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

9. What does Mattie find when she goes to the market?

10. Why does Mattie tell Eliza all of the details about what she has been through?

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