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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?
(a) in the church
(b) at a teacher's house
(c) at the lake
(d) at a friend's house

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

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

4. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?
(a) Sylvie sprains her ankle.
(b) Sylvie catches a rabbit.
(c) Sylvie leaves.
(d) Ruth falls asleep.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Lucille demand after she sees Sylvie's picture?
(a) regular meals with the lights on
(b) for Sylvie to hang his picture on the wall
(c) for Sylvie to take them to live with her husband
(d) to meet her uncle

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

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

14. What does Ruth believe her mother's death has turned Ruth's memories of her into?
(a) love
(b) an icon
(c) bitterness
(d) hope

15. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?
(a) at home
(b) on the beach
(c) in the farmhouse
(d) in the rowboat

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lucille ask Sylvie about her husband?

2. What does Sylvie do when Lucille asks her if she knows where the sisters spent the night?

3. What do Ruth and Lucille do one day after school to eat?

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

5. What does Sylvie say about her relationship with her husband?

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