Mattie
Other Characters
The Plot
Nouns & Pronouns
Potluck
100
Mattie is short for this full name.
What is Matilda?
100
She is the woman who tended to Mattie at Bush Hill
Who is Mrs. Flagg?
100
Grandfather and Mattie notice this when they return to the coffeehouse from Bush Hill.
What is that the house was ransacked?
100
This is the complete definition of a noun.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
100
The author of the novel, Laurie Halse Anderson, was born in this state.
What is New York?
200
Mattie tries to read this before she goes to sleep each night.
What is the Bible?
200
She is the woman in charge of the orphanage.
Who is Mrs. Bowles?
200
Mattie does this dance to show her appreciation for the food she found.
What is the potato dance?
200
This is the complete definition of a pronoun.
What is a word that takes the place of a noun or more than one noun?
200
This is referred to as the "necessary."
What is the bathroom?
300
Mattie lives on this street in Philadelphia.
What is High Street?
300
The attendants at Bush Hill spoke this incomprehensible language to Mattie.
What is French?
300
Mattie was worried that this secretly hidden object was stolen from the house.
What is the strongbox?
300
This is the definition of a proper noun.
What is a noun that is always capitalized? It refers to a specific person or place.
300
This is the only personal pronoun.
What is I?
400
At the beginning of Chapter 19, Mattie begins to dream of this food that was "bigger than a horse."
What is roast beef?
400
This is Grandfather's military title?
What is Captain (William Farnsworth Cook)?
400
Mattie slashed the tall robber with this.
What is Grandfather's sword?
400
This is the definition of an abstract noun.
What is a noun that cannot be seen, felt, or touched?
400
The word "aquifer" literally means this.
What is "carries water"?
500
Mattie says "We still have rules, even if Mother isn't here to enforce them" to whom?
Who is Silas?
500
This is Mrs. Flagg's first name.
What is Bridget?
500
When Mattie and Grandfather are leaving Philadelphia to the countryside, they are stopped at the border of this village.
What is Pembroke?
500
These are three examples of abstract nouns.
What are nouns such as independence, liberty, love, respect, joy, sadness, amusement...
500
This word literally means "to write before."
What is prescribe?
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