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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 do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?
(a) lecture them
(b) serve them dinner
(c) ignore Sylvie's problems
(d) go to the lawyer's with them

2. How long do the girls think the aunts will be staying?
(a) not very long
(b) until they're out of school
(c) for at least a couple of years
(d) until the girls get married

3. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?
(a) Florida
(b) Seattle
(c) Fingerbone
(d) Pittsburgh

4. What do the girls want from Sylvie?
(a) to take them to Wyoming
(b) to stay
(c) to take them traveling
(d) to talk to Lily and Nona

5. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?
(a) find Ruth's father
(b) find Mary
(c) move to Florida
(d) care for Ruth and Lucille

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?

2. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?

3. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

8. How do Lily and Nona feel toward each other?

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

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

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