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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does the town where the sisters stay with their grandmother sit?
(a) near the redwood forest
(b) on the top of a steep mountain
(c) on the cliffs looking over the ocean
(d) on the shores of a nameless lake

4. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?
(a) ties her up
(b) plays games with her
(c) locks the bedroom door
(d) runs all the errands downstairs

5. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) dug out of the ground
(b) made of wood
(c) was a stone cottage
(d) made of straw bales

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

3. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?

4. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?

5. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?

(see the answer key)

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