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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What shocks the neighboring women about Ruth's house?
(a) the smell
(b) the number of dogs there
(c) the cleanliness
(d) the chaos

3. What prompts the sheriff's visit to Ruth's home?
(a) The house has a strange smell.
(b) The yard has not been mowed.
(c) Ruth is spotted riding a boxcar.
(d) The dog is barking too much.

4. What do neighboring women bring to Ruth and Sylvie?
(a) cleaning supplies
(b) dog food and a leash
(c) casseroles, knitted scarves, gloves, and hats
(d) a lawnmower

5. The morning after the girls stay out all night, what does Lucille want to do?
(a) go to the lake
(b) go to church
(c) take the girls from school
(d) find their father

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

7. How does Sylvie try to gain acceptance of her custody?
(a) cleaning the house
(b) attending church
(c) talking to the neighbors
(d) cooking healthy meals

8. Why does the sheriff come by the house in Chapter 10?
(a) He comes to arrest Sylvie.
(b) He hears Sylvie screaming at Ruth.
(c) He finds their dog.
(d) He sees the fire.

9. How does Ruth feel about Sylvie trying to change?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is amused.
(c) She is touched.
(d) She is amazed.

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

11. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?
(a) She would have ignored them.
(b) She would have given them to their father.
(c) She would have abused them.
(d) She would have been a good mother.

12. What does Sylvie believe Ruth thinks of her when she talks about the people on the island?
(a) that Sylvie is an artist
(b) that Sylvie is insane
(c) that she makes friends easily
(d) that Sylvie is lying

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

14. What does Sylvie do when Lucille asks her if she knows where the sisters spent the night?
(a) laughs
(b) shrugs her shoulders
(c) puts them on restriction
(d) says she watched them all night

15. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?
(a) their father's behavior
(b) the teachers at school
(c) their grandmother's behavior
(d) their mother's behavior

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie do with all the newspapers and magazines in the house?

2. What happens to the pressed flowers the sisters find?

3. What does Lucille do when Sylvie returns to the house after leaving the park bench?

4. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?

5. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?

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