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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?
(a) They do volunteer work.
(b) They do not make new friends.
(c) They play bridge.
(d) They join a garden club.

2. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) in a borrowed car
(b) by taking the train
(c) they flew in a plane
(d) they went by horse back

3. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) Sylvie crying or singing
(b) screech owls chasing each other
(c) the wind off the lake
(d) a banging in the attic

4. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Helen
(b) Lulu
(c) Priscilla
(d) Bethany

5. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) seven years
(b) two years
(c) five years
(d) a couple of weeks

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sylvie?

2. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?

3. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?

4. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?

5. What does a teacher say about Lucille when they return to school following the flood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the girls know about Sylvie after one day in the house?

2. What does Ruth do when Sylvie will not come upstairs when the house is flooded?

3. Where does the narrator's grandfather end up when he leaves home and what happens to him there?

4. How does the grandfather's house fare in the flood?

5. What does the grandmother plan to do with the girls when she dies?

6. What does Sylvie look like when she arrives in Fingerbone?

7. What does the narrator say about her grandfather's youth in the first chapter?

8. What does Ruth and Lucille's mother do after she leaves them on the front porch?

9. What do Lily and Nona decide to do about being in Fingerbone?

10. What is Ruth and Lucille's response to Lucille's encounter with her teacher?

(see the answer keys)

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