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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?
(a) She comes upstairs.
(b) She leaves the house.
(c) She slaps Ruth.
(d) She quits talking to her.

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

3. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?
(a) off of napkins
(b) without utensils
(c) with chopsticks
(d) in the dark

4. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her three daughters
(b) no one, she lives alone
(c) her three dogs
(d) her two nephews

5. What does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) put off
(b) depressed
(c) understanding
(d) angry

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?

2. Where have Lily and Nona found Sylvie?

3. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?

4. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

5. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?

(see the answer key)

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