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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?
(a) Seattle
(b) Tallahassee
(c) Portland
(d) Boise

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

3. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?
(a) until they're out of school
(b) for at least a couple of years
(c) until the girls get married
(d) not very long

4. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for cooking meals
(b) for survival
(c) for help with school
(d) to fight with their grandfather

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Lily and Nona?

2. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?

3. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

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

5. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?

(see the answer key)

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