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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.
(b) They girls have great hearing.
(c) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(d) The girls eavesdrop.

3. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She dismisses them.
(b) She listens to them.
(c) She teases them.
(d) She acts cold toward them.

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

5. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
(a) That she will be very strict.
(b) That she is very mature.
(c) That she is great.
(d) She is not responsible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?

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

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

4. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?

5. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?

(see the answer key)

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