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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse does Sylvie give the school for the girls' problems?
(a) adolescent female troubles
(b) lack of clothes
(c) no money for shoes
(d) that they are needed at home

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

3. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?
(a) a boy from school
(b) a black cat
(c) barking dogs
(d) Lucille and her friends

4. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?
(a) in the dark
(b) without utensils
(c) off of napkins
(d) with chopsticks

5. What does the person from question #77 do after talking?
(a) comes and talks to the girls
(b) gets in a boat
(c) leaves
(d) walks out on the railroad bridge

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie say about the objections of the neighbors?

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

3. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?

4. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?

5. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?

(see the answer key)

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