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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"
(a) Ruth
(b) Jasmine
(c) Lucille
(d) Naomi

2. Who are Lily and Nona?
(a) the grandmother's sisters
(b) Helen's sisters
(c) the grandmother's sisters-in-law
(d) Ruth's sisters

3. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They want to arrest Sylvie.
(b) They make children go to school.
(c) They tax people.
(d) They can take children from their homes.

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

5. 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 they were disobeying her
(c) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out
(d) that she wanted to take them to the store

6. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?
(a) excited around them
(b) sad around them
(c) uncomfortable around them
(d) happy around them

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

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

9. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) ignores them
(b) lies to them
(c) she answers them
(d) pretends she doesn't know the answer

10. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?
(a) in the attic
(b) on the second floor
(c) in the garage
(d) on the lower floor

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

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

13. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Bethany
(b) Helen
(c) Lulu
(d) Priscilla

14. How is the grandmother's house after the flood waters go away?
(a) smelly
(b) fine, it wasn't flooded
(c) neat and clean
(d) disordered

15. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?
(a) She leaves the children for a month.
(b) She does not come back upstairs.
(c) She slips in the water.
(d) She drowns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

2. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

3. How does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?

4. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?

5. What kind of food does Sylvie generally make for dinner?

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