4. Fever 1793: Chapter 9 and 10

To have energy and the desire to do something hard.

• abhor

• gumption

• concede

• dregs

Something that is thought of in a bad way.

• disreputable

• din

• gumption

• concede

To get rid of something you don't want.

• miasma

• noxious

• purge

• teem

At the beginning of Chapter 9, what does Grandfather say was the reason Mother fainted?

• She has Yellow Fever.

• She was overheated.

• She hit her head.

• She had a summer fever.

Who is Mr. Rowley?

• A doctor from down on Water Street

• Not a proper doctor, but he sees sick folk and prescibes medicines

• A dirty man from the Coffeehouse

• A man looking for a job

What does Mattie mean when she says, "Giving my mother a bath seemed upside down and backside up"?

• Mothers are supposed to bathe their daughters, not the other way around.

• Mattie had a hard time getting her mom in the tub.

• Mattie only washed Mother's back.

• Mattie didn't say this.

Who cared for Mother overnight?

• Eliza

• Grandfather

• Mattie

• Mattie and Eliza

Mother does not want Mattie to help care for her because

• she doesn't want Mattie to get sick.

• she knows Mattie won't know what to do.

• she wishes Mattie had been a boy, and she's disappointed.

• she knows she isn't very sick and doesn't see why Mattie keeps trying to help.

What shocking thing happens when Mattie and Grandfather return from the print shop?

• Eliza has become sick and cannot continue cooking at the coffeehouse.

• Mother has been dumped from a wheelbarrow into the street outside the coffeehouse.

• Grandfather reveals that he is willing to leave the city to go to the country.

• Mattie has begun to feel sick.

Grandfather has never wanted to leave town because

• he thinks the fever rumors are overstated.

• he believes the Cooks are stronger than others, and that the coffeehouse is safe.

• he didn't run from the British, and he will not run from a disease.

• all of the above.