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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucille see when she turns the lights on in the kitchen one night?
(a) total disorder
(b) Ruth sleeping
(c) three cats
(d) their school books

2. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) by taking the train
(b) they went by horse back
(c) in a borrowed car
(d) they flew in a plane

3. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?
(a) pack up and leave
(b) call Mary
(c) go to the store themselves
(d) call child welfare

4. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?
(a) uncomfortable
(b) happy
(c) scared
(d) indifferent

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucille bring home from the store?

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

3. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?

4. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

5. What does Ruth do when Lucille talks with her?

(see the answer key)

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