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

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

5. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?
(a) a note from a doctor
(b) her homework for two days
(c) nothing
(d) a note from Sylvie

6. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) made of wood
(b) dug out of the ground
(c) made of straw bales
(d) was a stone cottage

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

8. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?
(a) a teacher from school
(b) Sylvie
(c) Molly
(d) the principal

9. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?
(a) kindly
(b) coldly
(c) anxiously
(d) sadly

10. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?
(a) She remarries.
(b) She gets sick.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She leaves them.

11. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) swimming
(b) wading the waters
(c) by boat
(d) by rafts

12. How does the grandfather die?
(a) train goes off the bridge
(b) a tree falls on him
(c) a grizzly bear mauls him
(d) from polio

13. How does Lucille feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) happy
(b) frightened
(c) anxious
(d) frustrated

14. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She acts cold toward them.
(b) She teases them.
(c) She listens to them.
(d) She dismisses them.

15. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?
(a) in the church
(b) in the attic
(c) on the top floor of the house
(d) on the roof