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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 happens after the girls fight over the flowers?
(a) They don't speak for several days.
(b) Sylvie puts them on restriction.
(c) Ruth cuts school.
(d) They move to separate bedrooms.

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

3. What does Ruth plan to use to lure the children?
(a) hot dogs
(b) a book
(c) marshmallows
(d) a pretty doll

4. Who begins to voice objections about Ruth's care?
(a) the sheriff
(b) Lucille
(c) the neighbors
(d) the school

5. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?
(a) slaps her on the face
(b) goes and calls the police
(c) goes home and cleans
(d) kicks her

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucille do when Sylvie returns to the house after leaving the park bench?

2. What does Lucille demand after she sees Sylvie's picture?

3. What do the neighbors see on the floor of the house?

4. What is in the letter Sylvie receives in Chapter 10?

5. What does the sheriff asks Sylvie when he stops by the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth think about the loss of her mother in relationship to her thoughts on Cain and Abel?

2. What does Lucille do about the sewing after fighting with Ruth?

3. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

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

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

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

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

8. What happens when Lucille yells at Sylvie about sleeping on the bench?

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

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

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