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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. Why does Ruth hit Sylvie?
(a) to kill a bee on her shirt
(b) because Ruth is angry
(c) because she hates Sylvie
(d) to bring her out of her withdrawal

2. Where have Lily and Nona found Sylvie?
(a) Oregon
(b) Wyoming
(c) Florida
(d) Kentucky

3. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?
(a) She is on her way home.
(b) She does not have any money to feed them.
(c) Her children were taken from her.
(d) The woman's husband has the children.

4. Who is the person in question #77 talking with at the lake?
(a) some hobos
(b) two school teachers
(c) a carpenter
(d) a fisherman

5. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) made of wood
(b) was a stone cottage
(c) dug out of the ground
(d) made of straw bales

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

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

3. How does Lucille stay home from school?

4. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?

5. Why do bats keep coming in the girls' home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Sylvie goes downstairs during the flood after telling the girls a story?

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

5. What are the attitudes of Ruth and Lucille towards Sylvie's eccentricities?

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

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

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

9. Where do the girls go after the flood water recedes and what happens there?

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

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