View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?
(a) a stone cottage
(b) a white frame house
(c) an apartment
(d) residence hotel

5. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her two nephews
(b) no one, she lives alone
(c) her three dogs
(d) her three daughters

6. 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

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

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

9. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?
(a) Boise
(b) Portland
(c) Seattle
(d) Tallahassee

10. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) They girls have great hearing.
(b) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(c) The girls eavesdrop.
(d) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.

11. What do the girls want from Sylvie?
(a) to talk to Lily and Nona
(b) to stay
(c) to take them to Wyoming
(d) to take them traveling

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

13. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that they were disobeying her
(b) that she wanted to take them to the store
(c) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out
(d) that she needed directions to the lawyer's

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?

3. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?

4. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?

5. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 534 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample