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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. Where do Sissie's brothers want to go?
(a) In a boat.
(b) Inside the tavern.
(c) To a friend's house.
(d) To the convenience store.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom is Sissie afraid of the second summer?

3. Whom does Sissie most want to help?

4. Which of the following thoughts does Sissie have about her father?

5. Why does Sissie first taste beer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the idea of life and death explored in the text in part 1?

3. In what way does Sissie compare herself to her mother? How does she think they are different?

4. Why is Sissie horrified when she sees the bird stuck in the scum on the water?

5. How does Sissie view her father in Part 2? How does this compare to Jerry's view of their father?

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

7. Is Sissie comfortable being around her father in Part 2? Why or why not?

8. Describe the island that Sissie and Jerry explore.

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

10. Why does Sissie feel that she is a burden in Part 3? How does this make her feel?

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