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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Lulu
(b) Bethany
(c) Priscilla
(d) Helen

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Molly go when she leaves home?

2. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?

3. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?

4. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

5. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?

(see the answer key)

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