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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) She will be taken from her care.
(b) Lucille will come back and help out.
(c) Sylvie will stay on top of things.
(d) It will die out.

2. What does Ruth plan to use to lure the children?
(a) a pretty doll
(b) marshmallows
(c) a book
(d) hot dogs

3. Why does Lucille ask Sylvie about her husband?
(a) she thought he might visit
(b) she was curious
(c) to spite her
(d) she wanted to know who he was

4. Why does Sylvie give Lucille money?
(a) to buy toothpaste
(b) to buy clothes
(c) to buy meat and vegetables
(d) to buy a sewing machine

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

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

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

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

9. What does Ruth have for lunch on the island?
(a) chicken noodle soup
(b) a black banana and salami
(c) peanut butter and jelly
(d) crackers and cheese

10. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff in answer to his inquiry in question # 164?
(a) She did not steal a boat.
(b) Lucille is staying with a teacher.
(c) She does not know where their father is.
(d) Ruth is upstairs in bed.

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

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

13. What does Sylvie do about the house to fight the objections?
(a) hides all the trash
(b) does repair work
(c) frantically cleans it
(d) buys new furniture

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?

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

5. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?

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