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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the town where the sisters stay with their grandmother sit?
(a) on the cliffs looking over the ocean
(b) near the redwood forest
(c) on the top of a steep mountain
(d) on the shores of a nameless lake

2. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) The snow melts.
(b) The dam breaks.
(c) There are three weeks of heavy rain.
(d) The lake overflows.

3. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?
(a) sadly
(b) anxiously
(c) coldly
(d) kindly

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

5. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?
(a) It was only when she was young.
(b) They are exaggerated.
(c) They are true but the aunts do not care.
(d) They are not true.

6. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?
(a) newspaper ads
(b) by contacting her old boyfriend
(c) through Mary
(d) by radio

7. What kind of food does Sylvie generally make for dinner?
(a) tacos and burritos
(b) Chinese take out
(c) raw vegetables
(d) cold, mostly canned food

8. Where do Lily and Nona live?
(a) Chicago
(b) New York
(c) Tucson
(d) Spokane

9. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?
(a) to ride a horse across the country
(b) to run for Congress
(c) to sail the oceans
(d) to travel

10. How does Lucille feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) anxious
(b) frustrated
(c) frightened
(d) happy

11. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?
(a) became a millionaire
(b) deserted the family
(c) died
(d) moved to Florida

12. How does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) comfortable
(b) angry
(c) anxious
(d) unloved

13. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She does not tell them what to do.
(b) She listens to them with interest.
(c) She loved Helen.
(d) She is young herself.

14. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?
(a) She gets sick.
(b) She remarries.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She leaves them.

15. Where have Lily and Nona found Sylvie?
(a) Oregon
(b) Florida
(c) Kentucky
(d) Wyoming

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?

2. What does Sylvie do at dinner and in the evenings?

3. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?

4. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

5. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?

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