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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. What does the person from question #77 do after talking?
(a) comes and talks to the girls
(b) leaves
(c) walks out on the railroad bridge
(d) gets in a boat

2. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?
(a) off of napkins
(b) without utensils
(c) with chopsticks
(d) in the dark

3. What might be wrong with Sylvie?
(a) may be crippled
(b) might be an alcoholic
(c) may be dead
(d) may not be sane

4. Why do Ruth and Lucille skip school?
(a) It ias too hot so they go swimming.
(b) They are bullied by other students.
(c) They did not want to give the teacher a note.
(d) They were not prepared for a test.

5. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?
(a) a note from a doctor
(b) nothing
(c) her homework for two days
(d) a note from Sylvie

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls want from Sylvie?

2. How do Lily and Nona try to contact Sylvie?

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

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

5. How do Lily and Nona react to change?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Sylvie leaves the house when she first gets to Fingerbone?

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

4. How do the girls lie to Lily and Nona about Sylvie and what happens as the result?

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

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

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

8. What story does Sylvie tell during their stay upstairs to escape the flood waters? How do Ruth and Lucille react?

9. How do you think the girls might be feeling when they figure out their Aunts Lily and Nona don't want them?

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

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