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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 does Sylvie feel about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) understanding
(b) put off
(c) depressed
(d) angry

2. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She has fallen in the water.
(b) She has left them.
(c) She cannot find any food.
(d) She has died.

3. How is the grandmother's house after the flood waters go away?
(a) disordered
(b) smelly
(c) fine, it wasn't flooded
(d) neat and clean

4. How do the girls and Sylvie eat dinner?
(a) with chopsticks
(b) in the dark
(c) off of napkins
(d) without utensils

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lucille feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?

2. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?

3. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

4. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

5. How do Lily and Nona feel about moving from their home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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