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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Sylvie give Lucille money?
(a) to buy clothes
(b) to buy meat and vegetables
(c) to buy a sewing machine
(d) to buy toothpaste

3. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?
(a) eat breakfast
(b) see Lucille
(c) Ruth goes to school, Sylvie goes home
(d) hop a train

4. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"
(a) Ruth
(b) Lucille
(c) Naomi
(d) Jasmine

5. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?
(a) marries and builds a house
(b) marries and then gets divorced
(c) becomes the mayor
(d) becomes the town doctor

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

3. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?

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

5. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

(see the answer key)

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