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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her two nephews
(b) her three daughters
(c) no one, she lives alone
(d) her three dogs

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

3. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?
(a) She leaves them.
(b) She commits suicide.
(c) She remarries.
(d) She gets sick.

4. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that they were disobeying her
(b) that she needed directions to the lawyer's
(c) that she wanted to take them to the store
(d) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out

5. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They make children go to school.
(b) They tax people.
(c) They want to arrest Sylvie.
(d) They can take children from their homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the sisters' father grow up?

2. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?

3. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

4. What do the girls want from Sylvie?

5. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?

(see the answer key)

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