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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?
(a) They are excited.
(b) They are anxious.
(c) They resent it.
(d) They are indifferent.

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

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

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

5. Why do they want to find Sylvie?
(a) She might give them a vacation from Fingerbone.
(b) She might know another relation of the girls'.
(c) She might accept taking care of the girls.
(d) She might know where the girls' father is.

6. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?
(a) a note from Sylvie
(b) nothing
(c) a note from a doctor
(d) her homework for two days

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

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

9. How does the grandfather die?
(a) a grizzly bear mauls him
(b) from polio
(c) train goes off the bridge
(d) a tree falls on him

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

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

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

13. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?
(a) The woman's husband has the children.
(b) Her children were taken from her.
(c) She does not have any money to feed them.
(d) She is on her way home.

14. How do Lily and Nona react to change?
(a) It frightens them.
(b) It thrills them.
(c) They like it fine.
(d) They are indifferent to it.

15. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) take the girls to Wyoming
(b) contact the family lawyer
(c) come back to Fiingerbone
(d) find Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?

2. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?

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

4. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?

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

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