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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 Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?
(a) goes and calls the police
(b) slaps her on the face
(c) goes home and cleans
(d) kicks her

2. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?
(a) two antique bottles
(b) an abandoned farmhouse
(c) a cave
(d) a creek

3. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?
(a) move to Florida
(b) find Mary
(c) care for Ruth and Lucille
(d) find Ruth's father

4. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?
(a) about her husband
(b) about her sister Molly
(c) about a woman on a bus
(d) about blue birds in spring

5. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
(a) She is not responsible.
(b) That she will be very strict.
(c) That she is very mature.
(d) That she is great.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the person in question #77 talking with at the lake?

3. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

4. What does Ruth do while Lucille is talking to girls at the drugstore?

5. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?

(see the answer key)

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