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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?
(a) the grocery store
(b) church
(c) to the train station
(d) the post office

2. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too angry
(b) they're too young
(c) that they're too old
(d) they're too strict

3. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for cooking meals
(b) for survival
(c) to fight with their grandfather
(d) for help with school

4. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?
(a) Mt. Helena
(b) Fingerbone
(c) Allocaster
(d) Shinbone

5. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?
(a) Florida
(b) Fingerbone
(c) Pittsburgh
(d) Seattle

6. Why do Ruth and Lucille skip school?
(a) They were not prepared for a test.
(b) They did not want to give the teacher a note.
(c) It ias too hot so they go swimming.
(d) They are bullied by other students.

7. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) two years
(b) a couple of weeks
(c) seven years
(d) five years

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

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

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

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

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

13. What do the girls want from Sylvie?
(a) to take them to Wyoming
(b) to stay
(c) to talk to Lily and Nona
(d) to take them traveling

14. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?
(a) a note from Sylvie
(b) nothing
(c) her homework for two days
(d) a note from a doctor

15. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?
(a) close sisterly bond
(b) they don't understand each other
(c) they're rivals
(d) they are indifferent to each other

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person from question #77 do after talking?

2. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?

3. Where is Sylvie?

4. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?

5. Where does Molly go when she leaves home?

(see the answer keys)

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