Fever 1793 Study Guide Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. What Mattie’s mother wants her to do after she becomes sick.
  2. 4. When Mattie and Grandfather returned to the house, it had been ________ into.
  3. 5. This person finally makes Mattie leave the city.
  4. 6. The farmer driving the cart thought Grandfather was ______, so he wouldn’t bring them to the Ludingtons’.
  5. 10. This caused Grandfather’s death, in addition to hitting his head on the floor.
  6. 12. Where Mattie woke up after fainting (three words).
  7. 15. The group made up of Black people who cared for the sick because it was believed that Black people could not get the fever (three words).
  8. 20. Later in the story, Mattie acts like one of these when there is work to be done at the coffeehouse.
  9. 21. The story’s protagonist.
  10. 22. Where Mrs. Bowles suggested Mattie could work, get paid, and be fed (2 words)
  11. 24. Mattie said one when Grandfather was buried.
  12. 25. Joseph cared for three of them, and they all became sick with the fever.
  13. 26. The color of the ribbon put on a house when someone was sick with the fever.
  14. 29. The house where Mattie and Mother went for tea, and maybe even a boy for Mattie.
Down
  1. 1. The farm where Eliza told Mattie her mother had gone.
  2. 2. The story’s setting.
  3. 7. What mother was carried to the coffeehouse in when she became sick.
  4. 8. Some people, including Eliza, thought sick people needed to be ____, but Mattie disagreed.
  5. 9. Grandfather was buried with his wife’s _________.
  6. 11. At the end of the story, Mattie’s mother seems less _______.
  7. 13. What Eliza believes will destroy the fever.
  8. 14. The type of cart that Grandfather was carried in after he died.
  9. 16. What Mattie wants Eliza to become at the coffeehouse.
  10. 17. The name of the orphan child Mattie found and took care of.
  11. 18. Eliza’s brother, who she lived with.
  12. 19. This person didn’t show up for work at the coffeehouse because she was sick and died.
  13. 23. Mattie used this to get rid of the thief.
  14. 25. Mother’s business.
  15. 27. Mattie’s mother can no longer do this at the coffeehouse after having the fever.
  16. 28. Mattie found her while out looking for help.