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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) wading the waters
(b) by rafts
(c) by boat
(d) swimming

3. How does Lucille stay home from school?
(a) goes to the doctor
(b) tells Sylvie there's no school that day
(c) fakes an illness
(d) cuts her arm

4. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?
(a) purple forests
(b) red deserts
(c) unreal seascapes
(d) of imaginary mountains

5. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"
(a) Naomi
(b) Ruth
(c) Jasmine
(d) Lucille

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?

3. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?

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

5. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?

(see the answer key)

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