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Vocabulary
Mattie
Bush Hill
Summary
Questions
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quarantine

a period of isolation to avoid exposure to an illness

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Where does Mattie live.
She live in the attic of the coffeehouse
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What is Bush Hill?
It is an hospital for the sick.
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Why does Mattie wear mother clothes after she take bath?
She had no clean clothes of her own
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Where did mattie go to get water or How did Mattie know how to find water?

Mattie went over to the willow tree or Grandfather did war training exercises with her and he taught her how to find water.

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kin

relatives

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Mattie compares herself to the hot air balloon. How ?
Mattie feels like she can break free of the ropes that hold her just like the balloon.
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why was Mattie at Bush Hill?
Mattie fell ill with the fever
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Why does Mattie think that Eliza is the luckiest person she knows ?
Because she can keep secrets, shes a free slave, and she can walk through the city everyday.
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What was the cooks family buisness
The family business is the coffee house
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recuperate
to get back; to regain health and strength; recover
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How does Mattie get to Bush Hill?
Grandfather carries her all the way there
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How were the treatments different from the doctors of Bush hill to Dr. Rush.
The doctors at bush Hill didn't believe in bleeding their patients to get rid of the disease . They believed in rest and fluids.
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Why does Mattie and Grandfather go to the country side?
Mother falls ill and does not want them getting infected.
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what did the bell ringing at the church mean.
The bell at the chruch meant that somebody died and each bell after that showed how many years that they lived.
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skirmish

small fight, battle, scuffle

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What is one way Mattie shows she has become more responsible by the end of Fever 1793?

She reopens and runs the coffeehouse. 

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who was the nurse who flirted with grandfather at Bush Hill
The nurses name was Mrs. Flagg
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Where did Nell and the twins go after they fell ill with the fever.
They went back into the coffee house.
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Pepole in Philadelphia couldn't wait for the frost to come.
Pepole could wait for the frost because it would kill the yellow fever
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destitute
lacking something needed or desirable; extremely poor
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How can Mattie be considered like mother at the end of the story?
Mattie can be considered like mother because she in now running the coffee house , she takes care of Nell, and she lost someone she loved.
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Mattie saw black pepole sick at Bush Hill. Why?
Pepole thought that blacks were inmmune to the yellow fever disease but Mattie saw that they werent and feared for Eliza.
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In the book Mattie and Grandfather are kicked off of the wagon. Why?
Mattie and Grandfather are kicked off of the wagon because the horsemen suspect that grandfather has the yellow fever.
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Why did they think that slaves were immiune to the diease
The disease is common in Africa and South America and pepole in that area are immune