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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?
(a) to sail the oceans
(b) to run for Congress
(c) to ride a horse across the country
(d) to travel

2. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) a couple of weeks
(b) two years
(c) seven years
(d) five years

3. Why do they want to find Sylvie?
(a) She might accept taking care of the girls.
(b) She might give them a vacation from Fingerbone.
(c) She might know another relation of the girls'.
(d) She might know where the girls' father is.

4. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(b) The girls eavesdrop.
(c) They girls have great hearing.
(d) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.

5. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?
(a) a stone cottage
(b) a white frame house
(c) an apartment
(d) residence hotel

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

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

3. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?

4. How does the grandfather die?

5. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?

(see the answer key)

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