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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lucille stay home from school?
(a) goes to the doctor
(b) fakes an illness
(c) cuts her arm
(d) tells Sylvie there's no school that day

2. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?
(a) a teacher from school
(b) Molly
(c) Sylvie
(d) the principal

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

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

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

6. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) by rafts
(b) wading the waters
(c) by boat
(d) swimming

7. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?
(a) by radio
(b) by contacting her old boyfriend
(c) through Mary
(d) newspaper ads

8. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) was a stone cottage
(b) dug out of the ground
(c) made of straw bales
(d) made of wood

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

10. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?
(a) care for Ruth and Lucille
(b) find Ruth's father
(c) find Mary
(d) move to Florida

11. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?
(a) ignore Sylvie's problems
(b) serve them dinner
(c) go to the lawyer's with them
(d) lecture them

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

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

14. In what state is the town after the flood waters recede?
(a) dirty
(b) depressed
(c) disorganized
(d) happy

15. How does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) angry
(b) anxious
(c) comfortable
(d) unloved

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?

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

3. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?

4. Where is Sylvie?

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

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