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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 Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too angry
(b) they're too strict
(c) that they're too old
(d) they're too young

2. Who are Lily and Nona?
(a) Helen's sisters
(b) the grandmother's sisters
(c) the grandmother's sisters-in-law
(d) Ruth's sisters

3. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Bethany
(b) Lulu
(c) Helen
(d) Priscilla

4. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) wading the waters
(b) by rafts
(c) by boat
(d) swimming

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucille demand after she sees Sylvie's picture?

2. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?

3. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

4. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?

5. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?

(see the answer key)

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