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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They tax people.
(b) They make children go to school.
(c) They can take children from their homes.
(d) They want to arrest Sylvie.

2. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?
(a) Molly
(b) Helen
(c) Lucille
(d) the grandmother

3. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) they flew in a plane
(b) in a borrowed car
(c) by taking the train
(d) they went by horse back

4. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?
(a) It is very dark inside.
(b) They have a nest in the attic.
(c) Sylvie leaves the windows open.
(d) They like the food.

5. How does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) angry
(b) comfortable
(c) unloved
(d) anxious

Short Answer Questions

1. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?

2. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?

3. Why do Ruth and Lucille skip school?

4. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?

5. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?

(see the answer key)

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