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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She has died.
(b) She has fallen in the water.
(c) She has left them.
(d) She cannot find any food.

2. How does Lucille stay home from school?
(a) goes to the doctor
(b) tells Sylvie there's no school that day
(c) cuts her arm
(d) fakes an illness

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

4. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?
(a) their father's behavior
(b) their mother's behavior
(c) the teachers at school
(d) their grandmother's behavior

5. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?
(a) makes them go to school
(b) screams at them
(c) wraps them in warmed quilts
(d) calls the police

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lily and Nona live?

2. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?

3. Why does Lucille complain during the flood?

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

5. What happens to the pressed flowers the sisters find?

(see the answer key)

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