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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person from question #77 do after talking?
(a) leaves
(b) gets in a boat
(c) walks out on the railroad bridge
(d) comes and talks to the girls

2. Why do they want to find Sylvie?
(a) She might accept taking care of the girls.
(b) She might give them a vacation from Fingerbone.
(c) She might know where the girls' father is.
(d) She might know another relation of the girls'.

3. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) the wind off the lake
(b) a banging in the attic
(c) screech owls chasing each other
(d) Sylvie crying or singing

4. What does Sylvie say when asked if she wants children?
(a) She ignores the question.
(b) She refuses to answer.
(c) She wants to adopt.
(d) She says she has some.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

2. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?

3. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?

4. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?

5. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?

(see the answer key)

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