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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) to the train station
(b) church
(c) the grocery store
(d) the post office

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

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

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

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

6. What does their grandfather want most to do when he is young?
(a) to run for Congress
(b) to sail the oceans
(c) to ride a horse across the country
(d) to travel

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

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

9. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?
(a) She commits suicide.
(b) She gets sick.
(c) She leaves them.
(d) She remarries.

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

11. What does the person from question #77 do after talking?
(a) gets in a boat
(b) comes and talks to the girls
(c) walks out on the railroad bridge
(d) leaves

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

13. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?
(a) Sylvie
(b) Molly
(c) a teacher from school
(d) the principal

14. What does a teacher say about Lucille when they return to school following the flood?
(a) that she is a star pupil
(b) that she needs to work harder
(c) that she cheats
(d) that she 8is being transferred to another teacher

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sylvie?

2. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?

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

4. Who are Lily and Nona?

5. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

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