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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) church
(d) the grocery store

2. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that she wanted to take them to the store
(b) that she needed directions to the lawyer's
(c) that they were disobeying her
(d) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out

3. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) find Mary
(b) contact the family lawyer
(c) come back to Fiingerbone
(d) take the girls to Wyoming

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?

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

3. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

4. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

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

(see the answer key)

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