2. What happens to the girls when they return to school after skipping for a week?
(a) they have to do detention after school
(b) they are suspended
(c) nothing
(d) they have to make up all their work

3. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?
(a) She quits talking to her.
(b) She leaves the house.
(c) She comes upstairs.
(d) She slaps Ruth.

4. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) pretends she doesn't know the answer
(b) ignores them
(c) lies to them
(d) she answers them

5. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?
(a) They are true but the aunts do not care.
(b) They are exaggerated.
(c) They are not true.
(d) It was only when she was young.

6. Where does the town where the sisters stay with their grandmother sit?
(a) on the cliffs looking over the ocean
(b) on the shores of a nameless lake
(c) on the top of a steep mountain
(d) near the redwood forest

7. Where does Molly go when she leaves home?
(a) off to get married
(b) she dies
(c) she goes to New York to model clothes
(d) off to be a missionary

8. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?
(a) died
(b) became a millionaire
(c) moved to Florida
(d) deserted the family

9. What happens when the girls tell Sylvie they skipped school?
(a) She scolds them.
(b) She just says she did not realize that.
(c) She takes them to the store.
(d) She takes them to school.

10. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) the wind off the lake
(b) screech owls chasing each other
(c) Sylvie crying or singing
(d) a banging in the attic

11. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?
(a) Shinbone
(b) Mt. Helena
(c) Fingerbone
(d) Allocaster

12. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?
(a) newspaper ads
(b) by contacting her old boyfriend
(c) by radio
(d) through Mary

13. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?
(a) anxious
(b) calm and even-tempered
(c) flighty
(d) optimistic

14. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?
(a) to ride a horse across the country
(b) to sail the oceans
(c) to travel
(d) to run for Congress

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