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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.
(b) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(c) The girls eavesdrop.
(d) They girls have great hearing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?

2. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?

3. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

4. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

5. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?

(see the answer key)

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