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

2. How is the grandmother's house after the flood waters go away?
(a) neat and clean
(b) smelly
(c) fine, it wasn't flooded
(d) disordered

3. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?
(a) church
(b) the post office
(c) to the train station
(d) the grocery store

4. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) swimming
(b) by rafts
(c) by boat
(d) wading the waters

5. Why does Lucille complain during the flood?
(a) She is bored.
(b) She misses school.
(c) She is hungry.
(d) She misses going to church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?

2. How does the grandfather die?

3. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?

4. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?

5. What does Sylvie say when asked if she wants children?

(see the answer key)

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