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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. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She does not tell them what to do.
(b) She listens to them with interest.
(c) She loved Helen.
(d) She is young herself.

2. Who is the narrator in the book, "Housekeeping?"
(a) Naomi
(b) Lucille
(c) Jasmine
(d) Ruth

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

4. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for help with school
(b) to fight with their grandfather
(c) for survival
(d) for cooking meals

5. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?
(a) They're indifferent to it.
(b) They're curious about it.
(c) They hate it.
(d) They love it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sylvie?

2. What does Sylvie say when asked if she wants children?

3. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?

4. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?

5. What kind of food does Sylvie generally make for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sylvie do in response to Lily and Nona's ads?

2. What happens to the narrator's grandmother after her husband is killed?

3. Where do the girls go after the flood water recedes and what happens there?

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

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

6. What do Ruth's mother and two aunts do following their father's death?

7. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

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

9. What happens to the town the second week that Sylvie is in Fingerbone?

10. How do Lily and Nona feel about being in Fingerbone and caring for Ruth and Lucille?

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