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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 Lily and Nona make new friends?
(a) They play bridge.
(b) They do volunteer work.
(c) They do not make new friends.
(d) They join a garden club.

2. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she is living in Europe
(b) she is in Spokane
(c) she is in Kentucky
(d) she has no known address

3. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) ignores them
(b) she answers them
(c) pretends she doesn't know the answer
(d) lies to them

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

5. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?
(a) a white frame house
(b) residence hotel
(c) a stone cottage
(d) an apartment

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they want to find Sylvie?

2. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?

3. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?

4. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do the girls see at the lake while skipping school?

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