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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth feel is most likely to occur due to all the fuss about Sylvie?
(a) Lucille will come back and help out.
(b) She will be taken from her care.
(c) It will die out.
(d) Sylvie will stay on top of things.

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

3. What does Sylvie say about her relationship with her husband?
(a) It is very good.
(b) They are out of touch.
(c) She hated him.
(d) He left her.

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

5. When do Sylvie and Ruth leave the island?
(a) as soon as they see the farmhouse
(b) early evening
(c) the next moring
(d) after nightfall

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?
(a) Ruth cuts school.
(b) They move to separate bedrooms.
(c) They don't speak for several days.
(d) Sylvie puts them on restriction.

13. What does Sylvie say her husband does for a living?
(a) He is a doctor.
(b) He is unemployed.
(c) He is a teacher.
(d) He is a sailor.

14. What does Sylvie say about the objections of the neighbors?
(a) to bug off
(b) She has no defense.
(c) that she is ill
(d) that Ruth is happy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?

2. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?

3. What does Sylvie do while the girls eat in the kitchen?

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

5. What does Ruth plan to use to lure the children?

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