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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
(a) That she is very mature.
(b) That she is great.
(c) She is not responsible.
(d) That she will be very strict.

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

4. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she has no known address
(b) she is in Kentucky
(c) she is in Spokane
(d) she is living in Europe

5. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?
(a) lecture them
(b) go to the lawyer's with them
(c) ignore Sylvie's problems
(d) serve them dinner

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?

2. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?

3. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?

4. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?

5. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?

(see the answer key)

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