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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) They are true but the aunts do not care.
(b) They are exaggerated.
(c) They are not true.
(d) It was only when she was young.

2. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?
(a) They hate her.
(b) They are indifferent.
(c) They are afraid of her.
(d) They like her.

3. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Helen
(b) Priscilla
(c) Lulu
(d) Bethany

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

5. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?
(a) She slaps Ruth.
(b) She comes upstairs.
(c) She quits talking to her.
(d) She leaves the house.

6. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?
(a) not very long
(b) until they're out of school
(c) until the girls get married
(d) for at least a couple of years

7. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) ignores them
(b) lies to them
(c) she answers them
(d) pretends she doesn't know the answer

8. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?
(a) on the lower floor
(b) in the garage
(c) in the attic
(d) on the second floor

9. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"
(a) Jasmine
(b) Ruth
(c) Naomi
(d) Lucille

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

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

12. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?
(a) moved to Florida
(b) became a millionaire
(c) deserted the family
(d) died

13. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?
(a) kindly
(b) coldly
(c) anxiously
(d) sadly

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

15. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she is living in Europe
(b) she has no known address
(c) she is in Spokane
(d) she is in Kentucky

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lily and Nona live?

2. Why do they want to find Sylvie?

3. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

4. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?

5. How does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?

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