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Worksheets4. Fever 1793: Chapter 9 and 10
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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.
