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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that she needed directions to the lawyer's
(b) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out
(c) that she wanted to take them to the store
(d) that they were disobeying her

2. What does Sylvie do at dinner and in the evenings?
(a) prowls the attic
(b) sleeps
(c) goes outside
(d) tells stories of her life

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

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

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

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

7. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she is in Spokane
(b) she has no known address
(c) she is in Kentucky
(d) she is living in Europe

8. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) by boat
(b) by rafts
(c) wading the waters
(d) swimming

9. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She cannot find any food.
(b) She has fallen in the water.
(c) She has died.
(d) She has left them.

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

11. Why do they want to find Sylvie?
(a) She might accept taking care of the girls.
(b) She might know where the girls' father is.
(c) She might know another relation of the girls'.
(d) She might give them a vacation from Fingerbone.

12. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?
(a) not very long
(b) for at least a couple of years
(c) until the girls get married
(d) until they're out of school

13. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) The girls eavesdrop.
(b) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(c) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.
(d) They girls have great hearing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?

2. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?

3. What happens to the girls when they return to school after skipping for a week?

4. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?

5. How does the grandfather die?

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