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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?
(a) became a millionaire
(b) deserted the family
(c) died
(d) moved to Florida

2. What happens to the pressed flowers the sisters find?
(a) They burn them in an incense burner.
(b) Sylvie eats them.
(c) Lucille crushes them.
(d) They throw them out a window.

3. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?
(a) in the church
(b) at a friend's house
(c) at the lake
(d) at a teacher's house

4. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She is young herself.
(b) She listens to them with interest.
(c) She does not tell them what to do.
(d) She loved Helen.

5. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?
(a) She shames her.
(b) She offers to cook dinner.
(c) She hits her and pulls her upstairs.
(d) She screams at her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The morning after the girls stay out all night, what does Lucille want to do?

3. What does Sylvie say when asked if she wants children?

4. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?

5. What does Sylvie do at dinner and in the evenings?

(see the answer key)

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