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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?
(a) in the attic
(b) on the second floor
(c) in the garage
(d) on the lower floor

2. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her two nephews
(b) no one, she lives alone
(c) her three daughters
(d) her three dogs

3. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for survival
(b) for cooking meals
(c) to fight with their grandfather
(d) for help with school

4. Who are Lily and Nona?
(a) Ruth's sisters
(b) the grandmother's sisters-in-law
(c) the grandmother's sisters
(d) Helen's sisters

5. What does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) understanding
(b) put off
(c) depressed
(d) angry

Short Answer Questions

1. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?

2. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?

3. Where does the town where the sisters stay with their grandmother sit?

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

5. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

(see the answer key)

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