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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a quality of the narration in the book?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Indistinct voice.
(c) Unbiased.
(d) Delusional.

2. What does Sissie's world revolve around in the first summer?
(a) Her siblings.
(b) School.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Her friends.

3. Which character would be best described as vulnerable?
(a) Sissie's brothers.
(b) Sissie's aunt.
(c) Sissie.
(d) Sissie's mother.

4. Which of the following might be considered Sissie's tragic flaw in the first summer?
(a) Her love for her parents.
(b) Her love for her brothers.
(c) Her love for nature.
(d) Her fear of her family.

5. Which of the following people are at home taking care of a child in the second summer?
(a) Sissie's aunt.
(b) Sissie's friend.
(c) Sissie's brother.
(d) Sissie's mother.

6. What do Sissie's parents bicker about in the first summer?
(a) Whether the family should leave.
(b) Whether she should get a haircut.
(c) Whether they should be allowing children in the tavern.
(d) Taking the children out on the lake.

7. How does Sissie describe her mother in the first summer detailed?
(a) A drunkard.
(b) Obtrusive.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Loud-mouthed.

8. Whom does Sissie witness throwing up in the second summer?
(a) Her father.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Jerry.

9. Whom does Sissie try to pacify as she waits for her father in the second summer?
(a) Her younger sibling.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Jerry.

10. Whom do Sissie's brothers beg to do something?
(a) Sissie's aunt.
(b) Sissie's father's friend.
(c) Sissie's mother.
(d) Sissie's father.

11. How old is Sissie in the first summer detailed in the story?
(a) An adult.
(b) A teenager.
(c) A middle school student.
(d) A young child.

12. How does Sissie describe her mother's hair in the first summer?
(a) Cut too short.
(b) Long.
(c) Exactly like her aunt's.
(d) Bobbed.

13. Which of the following describes Jerry's tone of voice as he waits with Sissie for his father?
(a) Demanding.
(b) Whispering.
(c) Whiny.
(d) Shrill.

14. In Part 2, where is Frank?
(a) At school.
(b) Inside a bar.
(c) With his friends.
(d) At home babysitting.

15. Which of the following characters are most likable in the first summer?
(a) Sissie's brother.
(b) Sissie's aunt.
(c) Sissie's mother.
(d) Sissie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Sissie afraid of the second summer?

2. Where do Sissie and Jerry wait in the second summer chapter?

3. Why does Sissie first taste beer?

4. Who joins Sissie's family as they sit in the first summer?

5. What does Sissie do on the island in the second summer?

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