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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for help with school
(b) to fight with their grandfather
(c) for cooking meals
(d) for survival

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

3. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?
(a) to ride a horse across the country
(b) to run for Congress
(c) to travel
(d) to sail the oceans

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

5. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) jumps off the train bridge
(b) leaves and never came back
(c) drives into the lake
(d) visits the graveyard where her father was buried

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?

3. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

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

5. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

(see the answer key)

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