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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. Who is the person in question #77 talking with at the lake?
(a) a carpenter
(b) a fisherman
(c) two school teachers
(d) some hobos

2. What happens when the girls tell Sylvie they skipped school?
(a) She just says she did not realize that.
(b) She takes them to the store.
(c) She takes them to school.
(d) She scolds them.

3. How do Lily and Nona react to change?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) It frightens them.
(c) It thrills them.
(d) They like it fine.

4. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) visits the graveyard where her father was buried
(b) leaves and never came back
(c) jumps off the train bridge
(d) drives into the lake

5. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) contact the family lawyer
(b) come back to Fiingerbone
(c) take the girls to Wyoming
(d) find Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?

2. What do the girls want from Sylvie?

3. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?

4. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?

5. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the girls like about Sylvie as far as their mother is concerned?

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

3. How does Sylvie feel about Ruth and Lucille going to school?

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

5. When and how do Ruth and Lucille end up in Fingerbone?

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

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

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

9. What do the girls see at the lake while skipping school?

10. What happens when Sylvie goes downstairs during the flood after telling the girls a story?

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