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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. Where does Molly go when she leaves home?
(a) she goes to New York to model clothes
(b) she dies
(c) off to be a missionary
(d) off to get married

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

3. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that they were disobeying her
(b) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out
(c) that she needed directions to the lawyer's
(d) that she wanted to take them to the store

4. What happens to the girls' mother when Ruth is six?
(a) She gets sick.
(b) She remarries.
(c) She leaves them.
(d) She commits suicide.

5. What does Sylvie do when she meets Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She dismisses them.
(b) She teases them.
(c) She listens to them.
(d) She acts cold toward them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?

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

3. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?

4. How does Sylvie's temperament seem to Ruth and Lucille?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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