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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 Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
(a) That she is great.
(b) That she is very mature.
(c) That she will be very strict.
(d) She is not responsible.

2. In what state is the town after the flood waters recede?
(a) disorganized
(b) happy
(c) depressed
(d) dirty

3. How does Lucille stay home from school?
(a) goes to the doctor
(b) tells Sylvie there's no school that day
(c) cuts her arm
(d) fakes an illness

4. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?
(a) She leaves the children for a month.
(b) She drowns.
(c) She slips in the water.
(d) She does not come back upstairs.

5. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They make children go to school.
(b) They want to arrest Sylvie.
(c) They tax people.
(d) They can take children from their homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?

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

3. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?

4. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?

5. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the girls do to keep Sylvie from going downstairs during the flood?

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

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