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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?
(a) Sylvie's can collection
(b) dirty dishes
(c) newspapers
(d) a couple of cats

2. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?
(a) She would have given them to their father.
(b) She would have abused them.
(c) She would have ignored them.
(d) She would have been a good mother.

3. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She teases them.
(b) She listens to them.
(c) She dismisses them.
(d) She acts cold toward them.

4. What does Lucille beg Ruth to do when they are out of the house?
(a) not go back to Sylvie
(b) tell the minister what is going on in their house
(c) get a job
(d) run away with her

5. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?
(a) lying down with a newspaper over her face
(b) talking to a neighbor
(c) reading a book
(d) feeding the birds

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sheriff tell Ruth about the next day?

2. What does Sylvie say about the objections of the neighbors?

3. What memories does the swaying bridge bring to Ruth's mind?

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

5. What does Ruth say is between her and Sylvie?

(see the answer key)

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