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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She listens to them with interest.
(b) She loved Helen.
(c) She does not tell them what to do.
(d) She is young herself.

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

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

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

5. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?
(a) It was only when she was young.
(b) They are true but the aunts do not care.
(c) They are not true.
(d) They are exaggerated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?

3. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?

4. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

5. Where do Lily and Nona live?

(see the answer key)

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