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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 Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?
(a) nothing
(b) a note from a doctor
(c) a note from Sylvie
(d) her homework for two days

2. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) The dam breaks.
(b) There are three weeks of heavy rain.
(c) The snow melts.
(d) The lake overflows.

3. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?
(a) Portland
(b) Boise
(c) Tallahassee
(d) Seattle

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

5. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) wading the waters
(b) by boat
(c) by rafts
(d) swimming

Short Answer Questions

1. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

2. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?

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

4. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

5. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?

(see the answer key)

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