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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?
(a) gives them to friends at school
(b) throws them out
(c) spreads them around the house
(d) gives them to Sylvie

3. What does Ruth believe her mother's death has turned Ruth's memories of her into?
(a) an icon
(b) hope
(c) bitterness
(d) love

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

5. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) by taking the train
(b) they went by horse back
(c) they flew in a plane
(d) in a borrowed car

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?

2. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?

3. How does Sylvie try to gain acceptance of her custody?

4. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?

5. Where does the town where the sisters stay with their grandmother sit?

(see the answer key)

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