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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"
(a) Ruth
(b) Lucille
(c) Jasmine
(d) Naomi

2. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?
(a) They are indifferent.
(b) They are excited.
(c) They are anxious.
(d) They resent it.

3. Who are Lily and Nona?
(a) the grandmother's sisters
(b) Helen's sisters
(c) the grandmother's sisters-in-law
(d) Ruth's sisters

4. 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

5. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?
(a) the post office
(b) to the train station
(c) the grocery store
(d) church

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?

2. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

3. Where did the sisters' father grow up?

4. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?

5. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?

(see the answer key)

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