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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?
(a) happy
(b) uncomfortable
(c) scared
(d) indifferent

3. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) ignores them
(b) pretends she doesn't know the answer
(c) she answers them
(d) lies to them

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

5. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?
(a) Sylvie
(b) the principal
(c) Molly
(d) a teacher from school

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?

2. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?

3. What does Ruth do while Lucille is talking to girls at the drugstore?

4. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?

5. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?

(see the answer key)

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