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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?
(a) a boy from school
(b) a black cat
(c) Lucille and her friends
(d) barking dogs

2. What does Ruth do while Lucille is talking to girls at the drugstore?
(a) steals some candy
(b) joins in the conversation
(c) trips and falls
(d) leaves

3. Who begins to voice objections about Ruth's care?
(a) the school
(b) the neighbors
(c) the sheriff
(d) Lucille

4. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?
(a) two antique bottles
(b) a cave
(c) a creek
(d) an abandoned farmhouse

5. What excuse does Sylvie give the school for the girls' problems?
(a) no money for shoes
(b) lack of clothes
(c) adolescent female troubles
(d) that they are needed at home

6. What does Sylvie do about the house to fight the objections?
(a) frantically cleans it
(b) does repair work
(c) buys new furniture
(d) hides all the trash

7. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?
(a) watches television
(b) makes pancakes
(c) goes to bed
(d) sings

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

9. What does Sylvie do while the girls eat in the kitchen?
(a) walks outside and eats crackers
(b) asks them about their day
(c) reads a book
(d) goes to sleep

10. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?
(a) wraps them in warmed quilts
(b) makes them go to school
(c) screams at them
(d) calls the police

11. What is wrong with the curtain in the kitchen?
(a) It is awful colors.
(b) It is too small.
(c) It is half burned.
(d) It is too long.

12. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?
(a) feeding the birds
(b) lying down with a newspaper over her face
(c) reading a book
(d) talking to a neighbor

13. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?
(a) throws them out
(b) spreads them around the house
(c) gives them to friends at school
(d) gives them to Sylvie

14. What does Lucille see when she turns the lights on in the kitchen one night?
(a) three cats
(b) total disorder
(c) Ruth sleeping
(d) their school books

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?

2. Why does Lucille ask Sylvie about her husband?

3. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?

4. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?

5. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff about Ruth hiding in the orchard?

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