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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?
(a) to sail the oceans
(b) to ride a horse across the country
(c) to run for Congress
(d) to travel

2. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) a banging in the attic
(b) screech owls chasing each other
(c) Sylvie crying or singing
(d) the wind off the lake

3. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) because she hates Sylvie
(b) to kill a bee on her shirt
(c) because Ruth is angry
(d) to bring her out of her withdrawal

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

5. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?
(a) about blue birds in spring
(b) about her sister Molly
(c) about a woman on a bus
(d) about her husband

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?

2. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

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

4. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?

5. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?

(see the answer key)

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