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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?
(a) They have a nest in the attic.
(b) It is very dark inside.
(c) Sylvie leaves the windows open.
(d) They like the food.

2. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?
(a) They don't speak for several days.
(b) They move to separate bedrooms.
(c) Ruth cuts school.
(d) Sylvie puts them on restriction.

3. What does Sylvie say about the objections of the neighbors?
(a) that Ruth is happy
(b) She has no defense.
(c) to bug off
(d) that she is ill

4. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?
(a) Sylvie catches a rabbit.
(b) Sylvie sprains her ankle.
(c) Sylvie leaves.
(d) Ruth falls asleep.

5. Why do they want to find Sylvie?
(a) She might know another relation of the girls'.
(b) She might accept taking care of the girls.
(c) She might know where the girls' father is.
(d) She might give them a vacation from Fingerbone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?

2. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?

3. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?

4. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?

5. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?

(see the answer key)

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