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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 wrong with the curtain in the kitchen?
(a) It is half burned.
(b) It is too small.
(c) It is awful colors.
(d) It is too long.

2. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?
(a) a black cat
(b) a boy from school
(c) barking dogs
(d) Lucille and her friends

3. What is in the letter Sylvie receives in Chapter 10?
(a) scheduling a custody hearing
(b) a letter from Molly saying she was coming home
(c) taking Ruth from her
(d) the letter from Ruth's father asking for her

4. What does Sylvie think Ruth can do with the children on the island?
(a) She can catch them.
(b) She can feed them.
(c) She can play with them.
(d) She can talk them into going to school.

5. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?
(a) wraps them in warmed quilts
(b) calls the police
(c) screams at them
(d) makes them go to school

Short Answer Questions

1. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?

2. What does the sheriff do about Sylvie's efforts to change?

3. How does Ruth feel about Sylvie trying to change?

4. When do Sylvie and Ruth leave the island?

5. What does Lucille beg Ruth to do when they are out of the house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when the sheriff comes to the house to see about the fire Sylvie lit to burn trash?

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

4. What does Sylvie do when she and Ruth stop at an abandoned farmhouse on the island?

5. When the school sends letters to Sylvie about the girls' truancy, what does Sylvie do?

6. What does Ruth think would have happened in her life if her mother had not killed herself?

7. What does Lucille do when she can no longer stand living with Sylvie?

8. What does Sylvie do when Lucille asks about her husband?

9. When Lucille turns the lights on in the kitchen one night what does she see?

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

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