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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 do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) contact the family lawyer
(b) take the girls to Wyoming
(c) come back to Fiingerbone
(d) find Mary
2. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) dug out of the ground
(b) was a stone cottage
(c) made of straw bales
(d) made of wood
3. What kind of food does Sylvie generally make for dinner?
(a) raw vegetables
(b) Chinese take out
(c) cold, mostly canned food
(d) tacos and burritos
4. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?
(a) Mt. Helena
(b) Allocaster
(c) Fingerbone
(d) Shinbone
5. What does Lucille do to keep Sylvie upstairs?
(a) plays games with her
(b) locks the bedroom door
(c) runs all the errands downstairs
(d) ties her up
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
2. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?
3. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?
4. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
5. How does Ruth get Sylvie to come upstairs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the town the second week that Sylvie is in Fingerbone?
2. What do Lily and Nona decide to do about being in Fingerbone?
3. What does Sylvie do in response to Lily and Nona's ads?
4. How do Lily and Nona feel toward each other?
5. What does Sylvie look like when she arrives in Fingerbone?
6. What do the girls see at the lake while skipping school?
7. What are the attitudes of Ruth and Lucille towards Sylvie's eccentricities?
8. What story does Sylvie tell during their stay upstairs to escape the flood waters? How do Ruth and Lucille react?
9. How do you think the girls might be feeling when they figure out their Aunts Lily and Nona don't want them?
10. How does the grandfather's house fare in the flood?
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