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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
(a) seeps them for tea
(b) puts them in the dinner salad
(c) puts them in another book
(d) sprinkles them in the front yard

2. What does Sylvie think Ruth can do with the children on the island?
(a) She can feed them.
(b) She can catch them.
(c) She can talk them into going to school.
(d) She can play with them.

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

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

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

6. What does Lucille beg Ruth to do when they are out of the house?
(a) run away with her
(b) tell the minister what is going on in their house
(c) get a job
(d) not go back to Sylvie

7. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?
(a) scared
(b) uncomfortable
(c) indifferent
(d) happy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sylvie give Lucille money?

2. What shocks the neighboring women about Ruth's house?

3. What do the neighbors see on the floor of the house?

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

5. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?

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