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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?
(a) purple forests
(b) red deserts
(c) of imaginary mountains
(d) unreal seascapes

2. 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

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

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

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

6. Where did the sisters' father grow up?
(a) in New York
(b) Middle West
(c) in the south
(d) in Alaska

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

8. How does Lucille feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) frustrated
(b) anxious
(c) happy
(d) frightened

9. Where does Molly go when she leaves home?
(a) she dies
(b) off to be a missionary
(c) off to get married
(d) she goes to New York to model clothes

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

11. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for help with school
(b) to fight with their grandfather
(c) for survival
(d) for cooking meals

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

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

14. What might be wrong with Sylvie?
(a) may be crippled
(b) might be an alcoholic
(c) may not be sane
(d) may be dead

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?

2. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?

3. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

4. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?

5. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?

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