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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 Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) visits the graveyard where her father was buried
(b) drives into the lake
(c) leaves and never came back
(d) jumps off the train bridge

2. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she is in Spokane
(b) she has no known address
(c) she is in Kentucky
(d) she is living in Europe

3. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They make children go to school.
(b) They can take children from their homes.
(c) They want to arrest Sylvie.
(d) They tax people.

4. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?
(a) a note from Sylvie
(b) nothing
(c) her homework for two days
(d) a note from a doctor

5. What do the girls do at home in their free time?
(a) explore their grandmother's possessions
(b) go over to friends' houses
(c) play jacks
(d) watch television

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?

2. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?

3. What does Sylvie do at dinner and in the evenings?

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

5. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?

(see the answer key)

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