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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 react to change?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) It thrills them.
(c) They like it fine.
(d) It frightens them.

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

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

4. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?
(a) church
(b) to the train station
(c) the grocery store
(d) the post office

5. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) take the girls to Wyoming
(b) find Mary
(c) contact the family lawyer
(d) come back to Fiingerbone

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Lily and Nona?

2. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

3. What do the girls want from Sylvie?

4. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

5. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?

(see the answer key)

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