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WorksheetsFever 1793 Chapter 20
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What does Mattie bury with Grandfather?
His prized chest pieces
A book of Psalms
A portrait of her Grandmother
His sword
Why does Mattie decide not to return to Bush Hill?
She does not want to seem like a helpless child.
It has become overwhelmed with fever victims.
She decides to go to the Ludingtons' instead.
There are too many memories of Grandfather there.
What does Mattie mistake for potatoes and carrots while at the empty market?
Mice
Rats
Dogs
Cats
Who does Mattie visit in hopes to have help in finding mother?
The Ogilvie's
Master Peale
Mr. Brown
Mrs. Flagg
Why is Mr. Brown unable to print an ad looking for Mother?
He has more important information to print in the newspaper.
The Gazette is the last paper being printed in the city.
He has no one to help him run the paper.
He plans to flee the city soon.
Why does the woman with the cane attack Mattie?
Because Mattie was peering in the windows of the Warner's hat shop.
Because Mattie had some bread and potatoes that the woman wanted.
Because Mattie says she had been sick with the fever.
Because the woman did not believe Mattie knew the Warner's.
Name the type of figurative language being used here:
"You can't just toss him in there like a sack of potatoes."
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Idiom
Name the type of figurative language being used here:
"Shiny, slippery rats, fat and fast, poured in and out of the basket twitching their noses and flicking their tails."
Oxymoron
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Name the type of figurative language being used here:
"The sodden wharf planks moaned as the tide pulled the river water toward the open sea."
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
Irony
What does Mattie find at the end of this chapter?
A lost puppy
A broken doll
A small child
An abandoned satchel
