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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) contact the family lawyer
(b) take the girls to Wyoming
(c) come back to Fiingerbone
(d) find Mary

2. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?
(a) by contacting her old boyfriend
(b) newspaper ads
(c) through Mary
(d) by radio

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

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

5. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) was a stone cottage
(b) made of wood
(c) made of straw bales
(d) dug out of the ground

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie tell Ruth about the people on the island?

2. Where have Lily and Nona found Sylvie?

3. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

4. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?

5. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?

(see the answer key)

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