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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Describe the relationship among the children in the first summer the reader sees at the tavern.
(a) Sissie wants to be just like her brothers.
(b) Sissie spends a lot of time with her brothers but does not like doing so.
(c) Sissie is afraid of her brothers.
(d) Sissie is close with her brothers.

3. How does Sissie describe the island that she goes to with her father?
(a) Large and open.
(b) Untouched.
(c) Small and dirty.
(d) Cluttered and expansive.

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

5. Which of the following is obvious to the reader by the second summer about Sissie's father?
(a) He does not love his children.
(b) He does not know how to row a boat.
(c) He is an alcoholic.
(d) He abuses drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims to hate their father?

2. What type of innocence would be considered a theme in the book?

3. Which of the following makes the setting in the second summer seem rural?

4. Whom does Sissie play a game with at the beginning of the story?

5. In what body part does Sissie see similarity between her father and Jerry?

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