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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sissie do on the island in the second summer?
(a) Becomes sick.
(b) Plays hide and seek.
(c) Picks up trash.
(d) Explores.

2. What does Sissie do after seeing a character vomiting?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She calls her mother.
(c) She begins crying and freezes.
(d) She begins yelling.

3. What item makes Sissie feel powerless in the first summer?
(a) Beer.
(b) Her brothers.
(c) The bird.
(d) Boats.

4. What quality about her father does Sissie dislike?
(a) His quick aging.
(b) The way he disciplines her.
(c) His voice.
(d) His drinking.

5. Who jokingly offers to take the children on a boat?
(a) A friend of Sissie's mother.
(b) A friend of Sissie's aunt.
(c) Sissie's neighbor.
(d) Sissie's uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Sissie try to stay away from when she mentions the stuck bird?

2. What season is it in when Sissie is on the island?

3. Which of the following is the name of Sissie's youngest brother?

4. Why does Sissie first taste beer?

5. Looking at her father from far away, whom does Sissie believe he looks like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Sissie an innocent character in the beginning of the story? Why or why not?

2. What foreshadowing is present in the first part of the story, and what is foreshadowed?

3. What causes Sissie to feel suffocated in the final part of the book?

4. According to Sissie, what would her father think about Jesse and why?

5. In "Four Summers", what role are women meant to play? How does Sissie feel about this?

6. What does Sissie regret in her past?

7. After reading about Sissie's first summer experience at the tavern, what predictions can be made about the rest of the story?

8. In what way does the diction change between the first summer and second summer?

9. Why might it be difficult to write from Sissie's perspective?

10. Compare and contrast Jerry and his father.

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