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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. 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 father takes the boys in the boat.
(c) Sissie's aunt begins crying.
(d) Nothing.

2. What is Sissie's reaction to seeing a character vomiting?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Relief.

3. Which of the following makes the setting in the second summer seem rural?
(a) The theme of alcohol.
(b) The words that characters use.
(c) The bar.
(d) Sissie's upbringing.

4. Which of the following is a new addition to Sissie's family in the second summer?
(a) A baby boy.
(b) A bird.
(c) A cat.
(d) A baby girl.

5. What inanimate object does Sissie compare herself to in the second summer?
(a) A lake.
(b) An island.
(c) A boat.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is offered to Sissie by a woman in the first summer?

2. What is the reaction of the adults to Sissie's brothers and their begging?

3. What is the occupation of the man who marched in a parade?

4. What is the bird stuck in?

5. By which of the following items do Sissie's brothers wait?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Jesse remind Sissie of her father?

2. Why might it be difficult to write from Sissie's perspective?

3. Describe the narrator's clarity in the first part of the story.

4. What does Sissie claim anchors her to the earth?

5. Describe the family dynamic in Sissie's household.

6. How does Sissie compare her father to other men?

7. When Sissie sees her father throwing up, why is she afraid?

8. Describe Sissie's physical retreat in Part 3.

9. Describe Sissie's view of her father the first summer at the tavern.

10. How does the writer make the summer season very apparent in the text in Part 2?

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