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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too strict
(b) that they're too old
(c) they're too young
(d) they're too angry

3. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that she needed directions to the lawyer's
(b) that she wanted to take them to the store
(c) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out
(d) that they were disobeying her

4. What excuse does Sylvie give the school for the girls' problems?
(a) that they are needed at home
(b) adolescent female troubles
(c) lack of clothes
(d) no money for shoes

5. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?
(a) There is no school.
(b) They visit their father.
(c) They run out of clean clothes.
(d) The weather is warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?

2. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?

3. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

4. What does Sylvie do after the answer in question #105?

5. How does Ruth feel about Sylvie trying to change?

(see the answer key)

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