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

2. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?
(a) There is no school.
(b) The weather is warm.
(c) They visit their father.
(d) They run out of clean clothes.

3. What does Ruth do when the trash fire has gone out?
(a) hides in the orchard
(b) goes to the lake
(c) eats dinner
(d) goes to bed

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

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

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

7. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?
(a) She puts them in the attic.
(b) She takes them to school.
(c) She stuffs them in the stove.
(d) She takes them to a friend's house.

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

9. 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 been a good mother.
(d) She would have abused them.

10. How do the girls find out what certain sewing terms mean?
(a) asking a girl at school
(b) using the dictionary
(c) asking Sylvie
(d) asking a teacher

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

12. What does Sylvie do after the answer in question #105?
(a) leaves the house
(b) cooks dinner
(c) sits down
(d) sends Lucille to bed

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

14. What do the neighbors see on the floor of the house?
(a) muddy foot prints
(b) nothing
(c) dog droppings
(d) fallen leaves

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?

2. What does Ruth feel is most likely to occur due to all the fuss about Sylvie?

3. What does Ruth have for lunch on the island?

4. How does Sylvie try to gain acceptance of her custody?

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

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