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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?
(a) becomes the mayor
(b) marries and then gets divorced
(c) becomes the town doctor
(d) marries and builds a house

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

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

5. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) in a borrowed car
(b) by taking the train
(c) they flew in a plane
(d) they went by horse back

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

7. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?
(a) shorts and t-shirt
(b) fur coat
(c) swim suit
(d) salvaged clothes

8. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?
(a) ignore Sylvie's problems
(b) go to the lawyer's with them
(c) serve them dinner
(d) lecture them

9. Who is the person in question #77 talking with at the lake?
(a) two school teachers
(b) a carpenter
(c) a fisherman
(d) some hobos

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

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

12. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?
(a) She shames her.
(b) She hits her and pulls her upstairs.
(c) She offers to cook dinner.
(d) She screams at her.

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

14. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?
(a) about a woman on a bus
(b) about her husband
(c) about blue birds in spring
(d) about her sister Molly

15. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She listens to them.
(b) She acts cold toward them.
(c) She teases them.
(d) She dismisses them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?

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

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

4. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?

5. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?

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