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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lucille stay home from school?
(a) goes to the doctor
(b) fakes an illness
(c) cuts her arm
(d) tells Sylvie there's no school that day

2. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?
(a) about her sister Molly
(b) about a woman on a bus
(c) about her husband
(d) about blue birds in spring

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

4. Why do Ruth and Lucille skip school?
(a) They are bullied by other students.
(b) It ias too hot so they go swimming.
(c) They did not want to give the teacher a note.
(d) They were not prepared for a test.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?

3. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

4. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?

5. What is wrong with the curtain in the kitchen?

(see the answer key)

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