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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 Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too strict
(b) they're too young
(c) that they're too old
(d) they're too angry

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

3. What does Sylvie do at dinner and in the evenings?
(a) prowls the attic
(b) sleeps
(c) tells stories of her life
(d) goes outside

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

2. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

3. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?

4. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

5. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?

(see the answer key)

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