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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) find Mary
(b) contact the family lawyer
(c) take the girls to Wyoming
(d) come back to Fiingerbone

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

4. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?
(a) unreal seascapes
(b) purple forests
(c) red deserts
(d) of imaginary mountains

5. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?
(a) They think she is not dressed properly for the weather
(b) They think she is going to buy them something.
(c) They think she will get lost.
(d) They are afraid she will leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?

2. Where did the sisters' father grow up?

3. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?

4. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?

5. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?

(see the answer key)

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