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

2. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?
(a) makes them go to school
(b) wraps them in warmed quilts
(c) screams at them
(d) calls the police

3. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) to kill a bee on her shirt
(b) to bring her out of her withdrawal
(c) because Ruth is angry
(d) because she hates Sylvie

4. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
(a) puts them in the dinner salad
(b) sprinkles them in the front yard
(c) puts them in another book
(d) seeps them for tea

5. What happens to the girls when they return to school after skipping for a week?
(a) nothing
(b) they are suspended
(c) they have to make up all their work
(d) they have to do detention after school

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie say her husband does for a living?

2. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?

3. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?

4. What does Sylvie think Ruth can do with the children on the island?

5. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?

(see the answer key)

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