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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sylvie do while the girls eat in the kitchen?
(a) asks them about their day
(b) reads a book
(c) goes to sleep
(d) walks outside and eats crackers

2. What does Lucille bring home from the store?
(a) a dress pattern and fabric
(b) a pound of hamburger
(c) some school supplies
(d) a dozen eggs

3. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) jumps off the train bridge
(b) drives into the lake
(c) visits the graveyard where her father was buried
(d) leaves and never came back

4. What does Ruth do while Lucille is talking to girls at the drugstore?
(a) leaves
(b) joins in the conversation
(c) steals some candy
(d) trips and falls

5. What does Lucille beg Ruth to do when they are out of the house?
(a) get a job
(b) run away with her
(c) tell the minister what is going on in their house
(d) not go back to Sylvie

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?

2. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?

3. What does Sylvie tell Ruth about the people on the island?

4. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?

5. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?

(see the answer key)

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