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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Lily and Nona live?
(a) Spokane
(b) Chicago
(c) Tucson
(d) New York

3. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?
(a) marries and builds a house
(b) becomes the town doctor
(c) becomes the mayor
(d) marries and then gets divorced

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

2. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?

3. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?

4. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?

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

(see the answer key)

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