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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Molly go when she leaves home?
(a) off to get married
(b) she goes to New York to model clothes
(c) off to be a missionary
(d) she dies

2. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?
(a) Portland
(b) Tallahassee
(c) Boise
(d) Seattle

3. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?
(a) marries and then gets divorced
(b) becomes the mayor
(c) becomes the town doctor
(d) marries and builds a house

4. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?
(a) She slaps Ruth.
(b) She leaves the house.
(c) She comes upstairs.
(d) She quits talking to her.

5. Who is the person in question #77 talking with at the lake?
(a) some hobos
(b) a carpenter
(c) a fisherman
(d) two school teachers

6. What might be wrong with Sylvie?
(a) may be dead
(b) may not be sane
(c) may be crippled
(d) might be an alcoholic

7. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
(a) That she is great.
(b) She is not responsible.
(c) That she is very mature.
(d) That she will be very strict.

8. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?
(a) They resent it.
(b) They are anxious.
(c) They are excited.
(d) They are indifferent.

9. What happens when the girls tell Sylvie they skipped school?
(a) She just says she did not realize that.
(b) She takes them to school.
(c) She scolds them.
(d) She takes them to the store.

10. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?
(a) pack up and leave
(b) call child welfare
(c) call Mary
(d) go to the store themselves

11. How does the grandfather die?
(a) from polio
(b) train goes off the bridge
(c) a grizzly bear mauls him
(d) a tree falls on him

12. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?
(a) They think she is not dressed properly for the weather
(b) They think she is going to buy them something.
(c) They think she will get lost.
(d) They are afraid she will leave.

13. What happens to the girls when they return to school after skipping for a week?
(a) they have to make up all their work
(b) they are suspended
(c) nothing
(d) they have to do detention after school

14. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) contact the family lawyer
(b) take the girls to Wyoming
(c) come back to Fiingerbone
(d) find Mary

15. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?
(a) They like the food.
(b) They have a nest in the attic.
(c) Sylvie leaves the windows open.
(d) It is very dark inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?

2. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

3. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?

4. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?

5. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?

(see the answer keys)

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