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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?
(a) optimistic
(b) calm and even-tempered
(c) anxious
(d) flighty

2. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?
(a) She offers to cook dinner.
(b) She hits her and pulls her upstairs.
(c) She shames her.
(d) She screams at her.

3. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?
(a) Helen
(b) Lucille
(c) the grandmother
(d) Molly

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

3. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

4. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?

5. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

(see the answer key)

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