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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 Sylvie give Lucille money?
(a) to buy toothpaste
(b) to buy a sewing machine
(c) to buy clothes
(d) to buy meat and vegetables

2. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?
(a) talking to a neighbor
(b) feeding the birds
(c) reading a book
(d) lying down with a newspaper over her face

3. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?
(a) Sylvie's transient ways
(b) the food they eat
(c) that her mother killed herself
(d) the tests in school

4. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?
(a) an abandoned farmhouse
(b) a creek
(c) a cave
(d) two antique bottles

5. What does Ruth do when the trash fire has gone out?
(a) hides in the orchard
(b) goes to bed
(c) goes to the lake
(d) eats dinner

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?

2. Who begins to voice objections about Ruth's care?

3. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?

4. What does Sylvie do with all the newspapers and magazines in the house?

5. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sylvie wake Ruth up before dawn after Lucille has left?

2. What happens when Ruth and Lucille try to sew?

3. How does Ruth respond to Lucille when she begs Ruth to leave Sylvie?

4. What happens when Sylvie and Ruth take a boat at the lake?

5. Why does the sheriff visit Ruth and Sylvie and what do some neighboring women do about his visit?

6. What do the girls do when the weather turns warm?

7. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night when they leave the island?

8. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

9. What do Sylvie and Ruth do the morning they return from the island?

10. How does Ruth feel about hanging out with the girls from school?

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