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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She cannot find any food.
(b) She has left them.
(c) She has died.
(d) She has fallen in the water.

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

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

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

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

9. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?
(a) Lucille
(b) the grandmother
(c) Helen
(d) Molly

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

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

12. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) in a borrowed car
(b) by taking the train
(c) they went by horse back
(d) they flew in a plane

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

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

15. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?
(a) close sisterly bond
(b) they are indifferent to each other
(c) they're rivals
(d) they don't understand each other

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?

2. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?

3. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

4. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?

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

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