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

2. What does Carl compare the lake to when talking with Ruth?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A dream.
(c) A giant bathtub.
(d) Crystals.

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

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

5. Who is badgered into moving to the island?
(a) Joe.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Imogene.
(d) Mathilda.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Amanda clings to Ruth, what emotion is Amanda drowning in?

2. Who cries for her mother in Part 1, Chapter 2?

3. Clement wants to build a house near ______________.

4. What shape is the scar around Amanda's thumb?

5. Whom does Imogene consider being in a past life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ruth and Imogene become friends?

2. What does Theresa do during the day?

3. What does Amanda recall about little Ruth in Part 2, Chapter 10?

4. What does Clement convince Theresa to invest in?

5. What are Amanda's thoughts involving her pregnancy?

6. Discuss Ruth's thoughts of her mother while at the island with her friends?

7. What happens on the morning when Ruth cries for her mother?

8. What happens on March 27, 1919?

9. How do Amanda's parents die?

10. Where does Ruth often take Imogene to visit?

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