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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the grandfather die?
(a) a grizzly bear mauls him
(b) a tree falls on him
(c) from polio
(d) train goes off the bridge

2. What might be wrong with Sylvie?
(a) may not be sane
(b) might be an alcoholic
(c) may be dead
(d) may be crippled

3. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) leaves and never came back
(b) jumps off the train bridge
(c) drives into the lake
(d) visits the graveyard where her father was buried

4. Where do Lily and Nona live?
(a) Chicago
(b) New York
(c) Tucson
(d) Spokane

5. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?
(a) find Ruth's father
(b) care for Ruth and Lucille
(c) find Mary
(d) move to Florida

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?

2. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?

3. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

4. Who are Lily and Nona?

5. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

(see the answer key)

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