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

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

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

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

5. What do the women in Sissie's narrations often wear?
(a) Bandanas and sunglasses.
(b) Too much jewelry.
(c) Church clothing.
(d) Big ornate hats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sissie in the second summer?

2. How does Sissie describe the island that she goes to with her father?

3. The reader can determine that the narrator has matured by the second summer after studying which of the following?

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

5. Who claims to hate their father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Sissie's parents argue in Part 3? How does it make Sissie feel?

3. What foreshadowing is present in the first part of the story, and what is foreshadowed?

4. What causes Sissie to lose trust in her mother?

5. Choose one literary device used in Part 2 and explain how it is used.

6. How does Sissie compare herself to the boat she rides in? Why?

7. What causes Sissie to feel suffocated in the final part of the book?

8. Is Sissie justified in being angry with her parents in Part 3? Why or why not?

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

10. In what way does the diction change between the first summer and second summer?

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