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Fever 1793 Vocab - Part I

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“Picking it up by the tail, I carried the corpse to the front window and leaned out”

a)

a food or snack

b)

a dead body

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

a place to get medicine

2.

“If not for Eliza’s fine victuals, and the hungry customers that bought them...”

a)

a food or snack

b)

a dead body

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

a place to get medicine

3.

“I wanted to own an entire city block--a proper restaurant, an apothecary, maybe a school”

a)

a food or snack

b)

a gross smell

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

a place to get medicine

4.

“It’s the source of a deadly miasma, a foul stench, indeed.”

a)

a food or snack

b)

a gross smell

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

toxic or sickening

5.

“There are noxious fumes all around the district. Mark my words, it will be a killer yet.”

a)

hanging around, wasting time

b)

a gross smell

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

toxic or sickening

6.

“Taking care of accounts was one territory that Mother conceded to me.”

a)

hanging around, wasting time

b)

an attacker

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

salty or spicy rather than sweet

7.

“And do not let me hear of you loitering shamelessly in front of the Peale house”

a)

hanging around, wasting time

b)

an attacker

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

salty or spicy rather than sweet

8.

“There was no savory to be found”

a)

hanging around, wasting time

b)

an attacker

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

salty or spicy rather than sweet

9.

“someone grabbed my basket and spun me around. I clenched my fists and whiled to face my assailant

a)

hanging around, wasting time

b)

an attacker

c)

to give up or surrender

d)

salty or spicy rather than sweet

10.

“So tell me, Lucille, what have you been doing for company this tedious August?”

a)

long and slow

b)

a disease

c)

tiredness or exhaustion

d)

to jump back in horror

11.

“All persons should avoid fatigue of the body and mind”

a)

long and slow

b)

a disease

c)

tiredness or exhaustion

d)

to jump back in horror

12.

“...men who stood unafraid before British cannon run in fear from this foul pestilence

a)

a small, sharp, surgical knife

b)

a disease

c)

a small bowl

d)

to jump back in horror

13.

“I recoiled as she leaned over the bed and retched a foul-smelling black fluid...”

a)

a small, sharp, surgical knife

b)

a disease

c)

a small bowl

d)

to jump back in horror

14.

“I flinched as the lancet flashed and blood from mother’s arm poured into the basin”

a)

a small, sharp, surgical knife

b)

a disease

c)

a small bowl

d)

to jump back in horror

15.

“I flinched as the lancet flashed and blood from mother’s arm poured into the basin

a)

a small, sharp, surgical knife

b)

a disease

c)

a small bowl

d)

to jump back in horror

16.

“...the sun burned red as it mounted the sky. Another oppressively hot day.”

a)

difficult to deal with

b)

an attacker

c)

secretly, carefully

d)

toxic or sickening

17.

“Perhaps Grandfather could inquire discreetly

a)

difficult to deal with

b)

an attacker

c)

secretly, carefully

d)

toxic or sickening