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

2. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?
(a) their father's behavior
(b) the teachers at school
(c) their mother's behavior
(d) their grandmother's behavior

3. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?
(a) see Lucille
(b) Ruth goes to school, Sylvie goes home
(c) hop a train
(d) eat breakfast

4. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?
(a) a boy from school
(b) Lucille and her friends
(c) barking dogs
(d) a black cat

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

6. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?
(a) They visit their father.
(b) The weather is warm.
(c) There is no school.
(d) They run out of clean clothes.

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

8. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?
(a) to return to school
(b) to keep silent
(c) to run away
(d) to dress better

9. What does Sylvie say about the owner of the boat?
(a) He has loaned her the boat.
(b) He is her cousin.
(c) He makes the boat with his hands.
(d) He may be a lunatic.

10. 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.

11. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?
(a) makes pancakes
(b) sings
(c) goes to bed
(d) watches television

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

13. What goes over them while they sleep?
(a) a train
(b) the full moon
(c) a screech owl
(d) an airplane

14. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?
(a) Is she hungry?
(b) Does she want to come home with him?
(c) Is Sylvie abusing her?
(d) Does she know where Lucille is staying?

15. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff about Ruth hiding in the orchard?
(a) She is looking for the cat.
(b) she loses her shoe there.
(c) They are playing a game.
(d) She is picking the apples.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Lucille ask Sylvie about her husband?

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

4. Why does the sheriff come by the house in Chapter 10?

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

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