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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) to kill a bee on her shirt
(b) to bring her out of her withdrawal
(c) because Ruth is angry
(d) because she hates Sylvie

3. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?
(a) in the attic
(b) in the church
(c) on the roof
(d) on the top floor of the house

4. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that she wanted to take them to the store
(b) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out
(c) that they were disobeying her
(d) that she needed directions to the lawyer's

5. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) made of straw bales
(b) was a stone cottage
(c) dug out of the ground
(d) made of wood

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?

2. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?

3. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

4. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?

5. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?

(see the answer key)

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