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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) There are three weeks of heavy rain.
(b) The dam breaks.
(c) The lake overflows.
(d) The snow melts.

2. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her two nephews
(b) her three dogs
(c) no one, she lives alone
(d) her three daughters

3. Why does Lucille complain during the flood?
(a) She misses school.
(b) She is hungry.
(c) She misses going to church.
(d) She is bored.

4. 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

5. How is the grandmother's house after the flood waters go away?
(a) neat and clean
(b) fine, it wasn't flooded
(c) smelly
(d) disordered

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?

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

3. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

4. Where is Sylvie?

5. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

(see the answer key)

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