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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?
(a) goes home and cleans
(b) goes and calls the police
(c) slaps her on the face
(d) kicks her

2. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?
(a) in the farmhouse
(b) on the beach
(c) at home
(d) in the rowboat

3. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?
(a) see Lucille
(b) hop a train
(c) Ruth goes to school, Sylvie goes home
(d) eat breakfast

4. What does the sheriff asks Sylvie when he stops by the house?
(a) if she stole a boat
(b) where the girls' father is
(c) where Lucille is staying
(d) to talk to Ruth

5. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?
(a) Sylvie's can collection
(b) a couple of cats
(c) dirty dishes
(d) newspapers

6. What does Lucille do when Sylvie returns to the house after leaving the park bench?
(a) ignores her
(b) goes to bed
(c) slaps her
(d) yells at her

7. What does Lucille bring home from the store?
(a) a dozen eggs
(b) some school supplies
(c) a dress pattern and fabric
(d) a pound of hamburger

8. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?
(a) Is she hungry?
(b) Does she want to come home with him?
(c) Is Sylvie abusing her?
(d) Does she know where Lucille is staying?

9. What does Ruth settle for with Sylvie?
(a) any nurturing she can get
(b) a messy house
(c) a lot of lectures
(d) bad food

10. Why do Sylvie and Ruth go to the lake?
(a) to fish
(b) to see where Ruth's grandfather died
(c) to feed the ducks
(d) to visit the island

11. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff about Ruth hiding in the orchard?
(a) she loses her shoe there.
(b) They are playing a game.
(c) She is picking the apples.
(d) She is looking for the cat.

12. What happens to the pressed flowers the sisters find?
(a) Sylvie eats them.
(b) Lucille crushes them.
(c) They burn them in an incense burner.
(d) They throw them out a window.

13. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?
(a) Sylvie's transient ways
(b) that her mother killed herself
(c) the tests in school
(d) the food they eat

14. What does Ruth do when Lucille talks with her?
(a) She cries.
(b) She slaps her in the face.
(c) She does not respond.
(d) She fights with her.

15. What does Sylvie finally realize about the neighbors' objections?
(a) They are partially true.
(b) They are making them up.
(c) They mean to take Ruth from her.
(d) Someone in town is trying to get her in trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?

2. What does Sylvie believe Ruth thinks of her when she talks about the people on the island?

3. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?

4. What does Sylvie say about the owner of the boat?

5. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?

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