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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) She has a new attitude.
(b) her aunt is insane
(c) go bug off
(d) She does not care about school.

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

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

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

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

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. Why does the sheriff come by the house in Chapter 10?
(a) He sees the fire.
(b) He comes to arrest Sylvie.
(c) He finds their dog.
(d) He hears Sylvie screaming at Ruth.

8. What do the neighbors see on the floor of the house?
(a) nothing
(b) fallen leaves
(c) muddy foot prints
(d) dog droppings

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

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

11. What happens to the pressed flowers the sisters find?
(a) Sylvie eats them.
(b) They burn them in an incense burner.
(c) Lucille crushes them.
(d) They throw them out a window.

12. What do Ruth and Lucille do one day after school to eat?
(a) go to the minister
(b) go fishing
(c) beg at the grocery store
(d) steal food

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

14. What does Sylvie finally realize about the neighbors' objections?
(a) They mean to take Ruth from her.
(b) They are making them up.
(c) Someone in town is trying to get her in trouble.
(d) They are partially true.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?

2. What does Ruth have for lunch on the island?

3. What does the sheriff asks Sylvie when he stops by the house?

4. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?

5. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?

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