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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who throws Ruth overboard a boat in order to teach her to swim?
(a) Imogene.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Amanda.
(d) Ray.

2. What shape is the scar around Amanda's thumb?
(a) Claw shaped.
(b) Star shaped.
(c) Moon shaped.
(d) Sun shaped.

3. Who cries for her mother in Part 1, Chapter 2?
(a) Mathilda.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Imogene.
(d) Ruth.

4. Where does Amanda have puncture wounds?
(a) Her elbow.
(b) Her thumb.
(c) Her forearm.
(d) Her foot.

5. What do Ruth and her friends find open on the island?
(a) A cabin.
(b) A car.
(c) A journal.
(d) A window.

6. Who is considered to be uppity at Mathilda's birth?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Rudy.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Mathilda's mother.

7. Who speaks with donors involving summer houses and social clubs?
(a) Theresa.
(b) Clement.
(c) Joe.
(d) Carl.

8. Who has a heart ailment?
(a) Carl.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Clement.
(d) Ruth.

9. What month does Mathilda and Carl get married in?
(a) January.
(b) June.
(c) March.
(d) December.

10. Who dislikes Carl for not being able to take care of Ruth?
(a) Carl.
(b) Rudy.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Amanda.

11. Who is lazy about chores?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Mathilda.
(c) Imogene.
(d) Carl.

12. Whom does Ruth bite in Part, 1, Chapter 6?
(a) Carl.
(b) Rudy.
(c) Joe.
(d) Hilda.

13. Who walks on two canes?
(a) Carl.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Imogene.
(d) Rudy.

14. What gets Ruth teased regularly?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her short hair.
(c) Her dead tooth.
(d) Her long hair.

15. Who buys the materials for the cabin that Carl and Mathilda build?
(a) Mathilda's father.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Carl's father.
(d) Carl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Amanda go in order to check on Imogene?

2. Whom is Ruth speaking with as the novel opens?

3. Who disciplines Ruth with a wooden spoon?

4. Whom does Ruth sit with during lunch at school?

5. Clement wants to build a house near ______________.

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