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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
(a) puts them in another book
(b) seeps them for tea
(c) puts them in the dinner salad
(d) sprinkles them in the front yard

2. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) the wind off the lake
(b) a banging in the attic
(c) Sylvie crying or singing
(d) screech owls chasing each other

3. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
(a) That she is very mature.
(b) That she is great.
(c) She is not responsible.
(d) That she will be very strict.

4. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth at the lake?
(a) an alligator
(b) some ducklings
(c) an irate man
(d) a dog

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucille see when she turns the lights on in the kitchen one night?

2. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?

3. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?

4. What does Ruth settle for with Sylvie?

5. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?

(see the answer key)

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