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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do they want to find Sylvie?
(a) She might know where the girls' father is.
(b) She might know another relation of the girls'.
(c) She might accept taking care of the girls.
(d) She might give them a vacation from Fingerbone.

2. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) There are three weeks of heavy rain.
(b) The dam breaks.
(c) The lake overflows.
(d) The snow melts.

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

4. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) the wind off the lake
(b) screech owls chasing each other
(c) a banging in the attic
(d) Sylvie crying or singing

5. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?
(a) unreal seascapes
(b) of imaginary mountains
(c) purple forests
(d) red deserts

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?

2. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?

3. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?

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

5. What is wrong with the curtain in the kitchen?

(see the answer key)

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