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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth do when Lucille talks with her?
(a) She does not respond.
(b) She fights with her.
(c) She cries.
(d) She slaps her in the face.

2. What does Sylvie bring home after the fight with Lucille over the park bench?
(a) a small puppy
(b) hamburger
(c) milk
(d) huckleberries

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

4. What does Ruth settle for with Sylvie?
(a) a lot of lectures
(b) a messy house
(c) bad food
(d) any nurturing she can get

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

6. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?
(a) goes and calls the police
(b) goes home and cleans
(c) kicks her
(d) slaps her on the face

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

8. 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 insane
(c) that Sylvie is lying
(d) that Sylvie is an artist

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

10. The morning after the girls stay out all night, what does Lucille want to do?
(a) find their father
(b) take the girls from school
(c) go to the lake
(d) go to church

11. What excuse does Sylvie give the school for the girls' problems?
(a) no money for shoes
(b) lack of clothes
(c) adolescent female troubles
(d) that they are needed at home

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

13. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
(a) seeps them for tea
(b) puts them in another book
(c) puts them in the dinner salad
(d) sprinkles them in the front yard

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

15. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?
(a) She would have abused them.
(b) She would have been a good mother.
(c) She would have given them to their father.
(d) She would have ignored them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?

2. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?

3. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?

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

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

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