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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is tied to the handle of the front door to the coffeehouse?

2. How does Mattie react when she is reunited with Eliza?

3. Who offers to design the handbill?

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

5. Where does Eliza go in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Find two examples of how people showed fear and panic during the epidemic.

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

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

5. Why does Eliza move the furniture outside?

6. Why does Mattie say that it is more difficult to care for children?

7. What does Eliza suggest that Mattie and Nell should do until the epidemic is over?

8. Why can the children not stay at the cooperage?

9. What type of information does Mr. Brown say that he is now reporting in his newspaper?

10. When Mattie goes to Simon's house what is she looking for and what does she find?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the themes FEVER, 1793 addresses is perseverance. Discuss what the novel has to say about this theme. Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas. Do you believe that the novel does a good job of expounding on this theme? Defend your answer.

Essay Topic 2

One of the themes FEVER, 1793 addresses is motivation. Discuss what the novel has to say about this theme. Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas. Do you believe that the novel does a good job of expounding on this theme? Defend your answer.

Essay Topic 3

One of the topics that FEVER, 1793 addresses is the contrast between how the city was before the epidemic and how the city is after the epidemic. In your essay:

1) Describe the city before the epidemic.

2) Describe the city after the epidemic.

3) Analyze the similarities and differences between these two periods.

Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.

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