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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

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 angry
(c) that they're too old
(d) they're too young

2. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) The girls eavesdrop.
(b) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(c) They girls have great hearing.
(d) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.

3. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) seven years
(b) a couple of weeks
(c) two years
(d) five years

4. How does the grandfather die?
(a) a grizzly bear mauls him
(b) from polio
(c) train goes off the bridge
(d) a tree falls on him

5. What might be wrong with Sylvie?
(a) might be an alcoholic
(b) may be crippled
(c) may be dead
(d) may not be sane

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sylvie?

2. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

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

4. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?

5. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?

(see the answer key)

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