1. Fever 1793

2. Fever 1793 Characters Setting Plot Vocabulary Misc. 100 200 300 400
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Final Jeopardy

3. Characters 100 Question: Who was the first to die of the fever?
Answer:
Polly
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4. Characters: 200 Question: True or false? Eliza is a freed slave.
Answer:
True
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5. Characters: 300 Question: True or False?
Matilda loves helping her mother in the coffeehouse.
Answer:
False
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6. Characters: 400 Question: Who did Matilda meet at the market? Answer:
Nathaniel Benson
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7. Characters: 500 Question: Which Oglive daughter got sick of the fever?
Answer:
Collette
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8. Setting: 100 Question: Where does Matilda’s family work? Answer:
A coffeehouse
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9. Setting: 200 Question: Where does Nathaniel Benson work? Answer:
the Peale’s house
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10. Setting: 300 Question: What month does the fever start? Answer: August
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11. Setting: 400
Question:
Where did Grandfather take Matilda after she caught the fever?
Answer:
Bush Hill
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12. Setting: 500
Question:
What day did the frost come and end the fever in Philadelphia?
Answer:
October 23, 1793
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13. Plot: 100 Question: What illness is going on in Philadelphia? Answer:
Yellow fever
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14. Plot: 200 Question: How did Matilda attempt to catch the fish? Answer:
She used her dress
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15. Plot: 300 Question: How did the fever end? Answer:
the frost at the beginning of Winter
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16. Plot: 400 Question: How did the robbers get into the house? Answer:
Matilda was hot so she left the window open
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17. Plot: 500 Question: Was the strongbox stolen? Answer:
No, the strongbox was not stolen
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18. Vocabulary: 100 Question: What is an urn? Answer:
An old fashioned coffeemaker
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19. Vocabulary: 200
Question:
What does Grippe mean?
Answer:
Illness
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20. Vocabulary: 300 Question: What does jaundiced mean? Answer:
Effected by prejudice or yellowed in skin
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21. Vocabulary: 400
Question:
What does abhorred mean?
Answer:
hated
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22. Vocabulary: 500 Question: What does miasma mean? Answer:
A dangerous influence
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23. Misc. 100 Question: What weapon hung over the fireplace? Answer:
A sword
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24. Misc. 200
Question:
What is Matilda’s cat’s name?
Answer:
Silas
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25. Misc. 300 Question: What was Grandfather’s parrot’s name? Answer:
King George
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26. Misc. 400 Question: How many potatoes did Matilda find in the garden?
Answer:
six
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27. Misc. 500 Question: How many people died in the actual fever? Answer:
around 4000 to 5000
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28. Final Jeopardy Question:
What did Nell refer to her doll and her mother’s conditions as
Answer:
Broken
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