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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the girls when they return to school after skipping for a week?
(a) they have to make up all their work
(b) they have to do detention after school
(c) they are suspended
(d) nothing

2. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She listens to them with interest.
(b) She loved Helen.
(c) She does not tell them what to do.
(d) She is young herself.

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

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

5. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) because she hates Sylvie
(b) to kill a bee on her shirt
(c) because Ruth is angry
(d) to bring her out of her withdrawal

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?

2. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?

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

4. Why do they want to find Sylvie?

5. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?

(see the answer key)

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