Vocabulary
What is the meaning of ABHORRED?
Regard with disgust and hatred.
What bites Mattie when she first wakes up?
What small business does Mattie's family own?
A coffeehouse.
Why are Mattie and mother fighting over Polly?
Mattie wants to go to her funeral.
What is the mood at the coffeehouse at the beginning of chapter 4?
It is positive because it is filled with laughter and socializing.
What is the meaning of PESTLE?
A tool used for grinding or mashing something.
What is the name of Mattie's servant friend?
Polly.
How did Mattie's father die?
He fell off of a ladder and broke his neck.
Why do mother and Eliza keep touching Mattie's forehead.
They believe she has come down with fever.
What is grandfather's parrots name?
King George.
What is the meaning of ROBUST?
Strong and healthy.
What did mother ask Mattie to work on cleaning up?
The garden.
Who was the former slave that now works at the coffeehouse as a head cook?
Eliza.
Does mother view Polly as a friend of Mattie and the family?
No, she is only a servant girl.
Through the air or as a miasma (noxious gassy scent).
What is the meaning of victuals?
Food.
What does Matilda dream of riding on?
Blanchard's Yellow Balloon.
What happens to Polly at the end of the chapter?
She dies of fever.
Why does Mattie believe her mother has changed and become more angry and bitter?
Because of her father's death.
True or false: Polly's love interest is named Matthew and Mattie's love interest is Nathaniel.
True.
What is the meaning of DAWDLING?
Waste time and move slowly.
Who killed the mouse and what did Mattie do with it?
Her cat Silas and she threw it out the window.
What did Mattie hate being referred to as and why?
Little Mattie because she felt grown up and independent.
What does Mattie refer to her mother as at the end of Chapter 3?
A tired, bitter, captain.
What was Mattie's primary job in chapter 4?
She took over Polly's duties at the coffeehouse.