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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?
(a) find Mary
(b) move to Florida
(c) care for Ruth and Lucille
(d) find Ruth's father

2. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She has fallen in the water.
(b) She has left them.
(c) She has died.
(d) She cannot find any food.

3. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) to bring her out of her withdrawal
(b) to kill a bee on her shirt
(c) because she hates Sylvie
(d) because Ruth is angry

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

5. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she is in Spokane
(b) she is in Kentucky
(c) she is living in Europe
(d) she has no known address

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?

2. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?

3. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?

4. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?

5. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

(see the answer key)

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