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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sisters (Chapters 1-5).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Billy's nickname for Georgie?
(a) Gee.
(b) Fry.
(c) Kiddo.
(d) Lassie.

2. What does Ma carry during Agatha's funeral?
(a) A feather.
(b) A bonnet.
(c) A parasol.
(d) A scrap of fabric.

3. Why do the pigeons return in greater numbers during odd numbered years?
(a) They only migrate every other year.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Their favorite oaks drop acorns every other year.
(d) The wind shifts from the north to the south.

4. What is the significance of Wednesday, June 7, 1871?
(a) It is Georgie's birthday.
(b) It is the date of Agatha's first funeral.
(c) It is Agatha and Benjamin's wedding date.
(d) It is Agatha's birthday.

5. How does Georgie plan to get a horse for her journey?
(a) By buying one from Billy McCabe.
(b) By borrowing Agatha's horse.
(c) By borrowing one of Grandfather Bolte's delivery-wagon horses.
(d) By stealing one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ma ask the sheriff for his knife?

2. What was the old man in the Seneca story following?

3. Whom does Polly Barfod want to marry?

4. How does Georgie react to the arrival of the pigeons?

5. What does Grandfather Bolte give Georgie on Christmas Day?

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