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Eliza, Grandfather, and Lucille (Her Mother)
What three people does Mattie worry about?
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She asks if she would like to come help at the orphanage, they would possibly feed her and pay her.
What does the Quaker woman, Mrs.Bowles, ask of Mattie?
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Mattie would bathe only one a month or for a special occasion while I bathe daily.
How are Mattie's bathing habits different from yours?
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She demands a prayer is said before her Grandfather is buried and he is carefully buried.
At the graveyard Mattie butts heads again with adults. What does she demand?
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A pharmacy or pharmacist.
What do we call the "apothecary" today?
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The person who said Mattie should be sent to the orphan house.
Who does Grandfather call a "foolish, meddling nitwit?"
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The streets are empty, houses are robbed, buildings destroyed and businesses closed.
How has Philadelphia changed since Mattie left?
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Mattie worries about Silas running away though the open window.
It's hot and Mattie goes to sleep with the shutters open, what does she worry about?
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She learns that most of the other newspaper, 5 have been shut down, and if people are not dying of the fever they are dying of starvation.
What does Mattie learn from Mr. Brown, the printer?
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She chases her down the street and then calls for her while Eliza is delivering things to homes. Mattie gets her attention and they reunite.
How does Mattie reunite with Eliza?
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A horrible odor.
What is the definition of stench?
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Broken window, Parrots cage broken into pieces, tables and chairs are overturned, broken pottery, and food missing.
Describe the conditions of the coffeehouse when Mattie and Grandfather return.
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He describes all the good things about Mattie and says "love you." He dies.
How does Grandfather say goodby to Mattie?
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A plague, a deadly epidemic.
What is the definition of pestilence?
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To enjoy.
What is the definition of relish?
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Dr. Rush- purging blood.
French doctors- rest, fresh air.
How did the French doctors' treatments differ from the famous Dr. Rush?
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The strongbox with all the money and coins in it.
What did the thieves miss?
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The robberss were looking for silver and pewter.
What are the thieves after?
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She also finds a bag full of clothes and a little girl. The broken doll is symbolic because it is all the people that Nell would say is broken or her mother is broken.
Mattie finds a broken doll in the street. What else does she find and how is the broken doll symbolic?
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An uneasy feeling, nauseous.
What is the definition of queasy?
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Starving, extremely hungry.
What is the definition of famished?
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Able to be eaten.
What is the definition of edible?
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A tin and lean combined metal.
What is the define of pewter?
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Metaphor. This means that death was a sad thing to be around and hard to carry around.
"Death was a heavy companion." What type of figurative language is this? What does this quotation mean in your own words?
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A narrow hard bed; a straw mattress.
What is the definition of pallet?
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