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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucille tell the principal at school?
(a) go bug off
(b) her aunt is insane
(c) She does not care about school.
(d) She has a new attitude.

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

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

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

5. Why can't Ruth hear Lucille when her sister talks to her?
(a) She is not paying attention.
(b) Dogs are barking too loud.
(c) She is deaf.
(d) She is exhausted.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?
(a) a picture in a small locket
(b) a drawing of her husband
(c) her wedding picture
(d) a sailor out of a magazine

12. What does the sheriff tell Ruth about the next day?
(a) She better be in school.
(b) It is his birthday.
(c) She is being taken away.
(d) Lucille will meet her at the library.

13. What does Sylvie do with all the newspapers and magazines in the house?
(a) donates them to Goodwill
(b) arranges them neatly on shelves
(c) gives them to the library
(d) burns them

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do neighboring women bring to Ruth and Sylvie?

2. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?

3. The morning after the girls stay out all night, what does Lucille want to do?

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

5. Why do Sylvie and Ruth go to the lake?

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