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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. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?
(a) She would have given them to their father.
(b) She would have been a good mother.
(c) She would have ignored them.
(d) She would have abused them.

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

3. What does Lucille do when Sylvie returns to the house after leaving the park bench?
(a) yells at her
(b) ignores her
(c) slaps her
(d) goes to bed

4. What does Ruth feel is most likely to occur due to all the fuss about Sylvie?
(a) She will be taken from her care.
(b) Sylvie will stay on top of things.
(c) Lucille will come back and help out.
(d) It will die out.

5. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?
(a) They visit their father.
(b) There is no school.
(c) They run out of clean clothes.
(d) The weather is warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruth settle for with Sylvie?

2. What does the sheriff tell Ruth about the next day?

3. What does Sylvie say about her relationship with her husband?

4. What does Lucille bring home from the store?

5. What shocks the neighboring women about Ruth's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, what does Sylvie do to continue to change enough to keep Ruth?

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

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

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

6. What does Lucille decide she and Ruth need to do about their life?

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

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

9. What is Sylvie's reaction to the town's concerns about her and Ruth?

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

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