2. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?
(a) unreal seascapes
(b) red deserts
(c) of imaginary mountains
(d) purple forests

3. What does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) angry
(b) understanding
(c) depressed
(d) put off

4. What does a teacher say about Lucille when they return to school following the flood?
(a) that she needs to work harder
(b) that she 8is being transferred to another teacher
(c) that she cheats
(d) that she is a star pupil

5. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?
(a) They join a garden club.
(b) They do volunteer work.
(c) They do not make new friends.
(d) They play bridge.

6. How is the grandmother's house after the flood waters go away?
(a) disordered
(b) neat and clean
(c) smelly
(d) fine, it wasn't flooded

7. How does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) angry
(b) comfortable
(c) anxious
(d) unloved

8. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She does not tell them what to do.
(b) She loved Helen.
(c) She listens to them with interest.
(d) She is young herself.

9. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) The snow melts.
(b) The lake overflows.
(c) The dam breaks.
(d) There are three weeks of heavy rain.

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

11. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her three daughters
(b) her two nephews
(c) her three dogs
(d) no one, she lives alone

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

13. In what state is the town after the flood waters recede?
(a) depressed
(b) happy
(c) disorganized
(d) dirty

14. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?
(a) She does not have any money to feed them.
(b) Her children were taken from her.
(c) She is on her way home.
(d) The woman's husband has the children.

15. What does Sylvie do at dinner and in the evenings?
(a) prowls the attic
(b) sleeps
(c) goes outside
(d) tells stories of her life