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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 does Ruth feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?
(a) unloved
(b) angry
(c) anxious
(d) comfortable

2. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too angry
(b) they're too strict
(c) they're too young
(d) that they're too old

3. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?
(a) They are anxious.
(b) They are excited.
(c) They resent it.
(d) They are indifferent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?

4. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?

5. Who are Lily and Nona?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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