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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?
(a) They are afraid of her.
(b) They hate her.
(c) They are indifferent.
(d) They like her.

2. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?
(a) happy
(b) uncomfortable
(c) scared
(d) indifferent

3. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?
(a) their grandmother's behavior
(b) the teachers at school
(c) their father's behavior
(d) their mother's behavior

4. Where did the sisters' father grow up?
(a) in Alaska
(b) Middle West
(c) in New York
(d) in the south

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?

2. Why does Lucille complain during the flood?

3. What does Sylvie finally realize about the neighbors' objections?

4. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?

5. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?

(see the answer key)

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