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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Bethany
(b) Priscilla
(c) Helen
(d) Lulu

3. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) ignores them
(b) pretends she doesn't know the answer
(c) lies to them
(d) she answers them

4. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They make children go to school.
(b) They tax people.
(c) They want to arrest Sylvie.
(d) They can take children from their homes.

5. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) The dam breaks.
(b) There are three weeks of heavy rain.
(c) The lake overflows.
(d) The snow melts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

2. How does the grandfather die?

3. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?

4. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

5. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

(see the answer key)

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