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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) They girls have great hearing.
(b) The girls eavesdrop.
(c) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(d) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.

2. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) a couple of weeks
(b) seven years
(c) five years
(d) two years

3. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?
(a) residence hotel
(b) an apartment
(c) a stone cottage
(d) a white frame house

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

2. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?

3. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

4. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

5. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?

(see the answer key)

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