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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?
(a) fur coat
(b) salvaged clothes
(c) shorts and t-shirt
(d) swim suit

2. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?
(a) She gets sick.
(b) She remarries.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She leaves them.

3. Where do Lily and Nona live?
(a) Spokane
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Tucson

4. Who are Lily and Nona?
(a) the grandmother's sisters
(b) Helen's sisters
(c) the grandmother's sisters-in-law
(d) Ruth's sisters

5. How does the grandfather die?
(a) train goes off the bridge
(b) a tree falls on him
(c) from polio
(d) a grizzly bear mauls him

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the grandmother's house after the flood waters go away?

2. What do the girls want from Sylvie?

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

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

5. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

(see the answer key)

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