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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 indicates that time has passed between the first two parts of the book?
(a) The age of the tavern.
(b) The narrator's education.
(c) The changing seasons.
(d) Maturation in the narration.

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

3. Which of the following describes the setting of the book?
(a) An urban tavern.
(b) A tavern on a lake.
(c) An tavern by the ocean.
(d) A tavern in a neighborhood.

4. Whom does Sissie describe as being similar to her father?
(a) Frank.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Jerry.
(d) Her mother.

5. What is the bird stuck in?
(a) In a discarded net.
(b) A piece of trash.
(c) Mud.
(d) Scum in the water.

6. What can Sissie see from her seat as she plays a game?
(a) A beach.
(b) A lake.
(c) A sandpit.
(d) A playground.

7. What is Sissie's father drinking as he approaches the children waiting for him in the second summer chapter?
(a) Water.
(b) Beer.
(c) Juice.
(d) Wine.

8. How is Sissie's family related to somebody they know who marched in a parade?
(a) He is a family friend.
(b) He is Sissie's teacher.
(c) He is Sissie's uncle.
(d) He is Sissie's brother.

9. How does Sissie describe Jerry's shoes?
(a) Not as nice as her own.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Spotless.
(d) Frayed because he has had them forever.

10. Which of the following is a theme in the book, visible in the first summer?
(a) Devotion to self.
(b) Animal nurturing.
(c) Imperfections in the world.
(d) Devotion to one's mother.

11. What is the outcome of Sissie's parents bickering at the tavern in the first summer?
(a) Sissie's mother takes Sissie back home.
(b) Sissie's aunt begins crying.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sissie's father takes the boys in the boat.

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

13. What type of bird do the children see that is stuck?
(a) A cardinal.
(b) A sparrow.
(c) A blackbird.
(d) A blue jay.

14. Where is Sissie sitting when she plays a game in her first summer at the tavern?
(a) On a bench.
(b) At a table.
(c) On a deck.
(d) On the grass.

15. What type of innocence would be considered a theme in the book?
(a) Innocence of a child.
(b) Innocence of love.
(c) Innocence of animals.
(d) Innocence of the elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who jokingly offers to take the children on a boat?

2. Where was the family in the first summer before they came to the tavern?

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

4. Who becomes angry with a woman when she offers something to Sissie during the first summer?

5. How many brothers does Sissie have?

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