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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. Which of the following literary devices is present in the book?
(a) Dramatic irony.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Foreshadowing.

2. Which of the following thoughts does Sissie have about her father?
(a) That he is less attractive than other men are.
(b) That he does not drink as much as the other men do.
(c) That he is meaner than the other men are.
(d) That he is unlike other men.

3. 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 abuses drugs.
(c) He is an alcoholic.
(d) He does not know how to row a boat.

4. By which of the following items do Sissie's brothers wait?
(a) A bar stool.
(b) A stable.
(c) A boat.
(d) A car.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sissie's world revolve around in the first summer?

2. How old is Sissie in the first summer detailed in the story?

3. How old is Jerry as he waits with Sissie for their father the second summer?

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

5. What do the women in Sissie's narrations often wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sissie afraid of in Part 1?

2. Describe the hierarchy of the sexes present in the story.

3. Why does Sissie call her encounter with the mysterious man a "game"?

4. Why does Sissie view her brief encounter with the mysterious man as a game?

5. How does Sissie compare the bar at the end of the book to the same bar years earlier?

6. In what way has the narration matured in the second summer that Sissie narrates?

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

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

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

10. In Part 3, how does Sissie feel about her father?

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