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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She cannot find any food.
(b) She has fallen in the water.
(c) She has left them.
(d) She has died.

2. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They can take children from their homes.
(b) They tax people.
(c) They make children go to school.
(d) They want to arrest Sylvie.

3. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?
(a) ties her up
(b) plays games with her
(c) locks the bedroom door
(d) runs all the errands downstairs

4. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) they flew in a plane
(b) in a borrowed car
(c) they went by horse back
(d) by taking the train

5. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?
(a) She is on her way home.
(b) The woman's husband has the children.
(c) Her children were taken from her.
(d) She does not have any money to feed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?

2. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?

3. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?

4. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?

5. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

(see the answer key)

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