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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) that they're too old
(b) they're too angry
(c) they're too strict
(d) they're too young

3. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?
(a) by radio
(b) through Mary
(c) by contacting her old boyfriend
(d) newspaper ads

4. What do the girls want from Sylvie?
(a) to stay
(b) to talk to Lily and Nona
(c) to take them to Wyoming
(d) to take them traveling

5. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She loved Helen.
(b) She is young herself.
(c) She does not tell them what to do.
(d) She listens to them with interest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?

3. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

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

5. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?

(see the answer key)

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