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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) to kill a bee on her shirt
(b) because Ruth is angry
(c) to bring her out of her withdrawal
(d) because she hates Sylvie

3. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?
(a) Lucille
(b) the grandmother
(c) Helen
(d) Molly

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

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

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

7. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) drives into the lake
(b) jumps off the train bridge
(c) visits the graveyard where her father was buried
(d) leaves and never came back

8. How do Lily and Nona react to change?
(a) It frightens them.
(b) They are indifferent to it.
(c) They like it fine.
(d) It thrills them.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) angry
(b) understanding
(c) put off
(d) depressed

14. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?
(a) in the church
(b) on the top floor of the house
(c) in the attic
(d) on the roof

15. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) Sylvie crying or singing
(b) a banging in the attic
(c) the wind off the lake
(d) screech owls chasing each other

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?

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

3. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?

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

5. How does the grandfather die?

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