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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 is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Helen
(b) Bethany
(c) Priscilla
(d) Lulu

2. How does the grandfather die?
(a) a grizzly bear mauls him
(b) a tree falls on him
(c) train goes off the bridge
(d) from polio

3. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?
(a) on the roof
(b) in the attic
(c) on the top floor of the house
(d) in the church

4. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) swimming
(b) wading the waters
(c) by boat
(d) by rafts

5. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) Sylvie crying or singing
(b) the wind off the lake
(c) screech owls chasing each other
(d) a banging in the attic

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Ruth and Lucille feel about Sylvie when they meet her?

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

3. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?

4. In what state is the town after the flood waters recede?

5. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the girls do to keep Sylvie from going downstairs during the flood?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why do Ruth and Lucille believe their aunt is an unstable person?

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