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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. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?
(a) in the farmhouse
(b) in the rowboat
(c) on the beach
(d) at home

2. What does Lucille see when she turns the lights on in the kitchen one night?
(a) total disorder
(b) Ruth sleeping
(c) three cats
(d) their school books

3. What does the sheriff tell Ruth about the next day?
(a) She is being taken away.
(b) She better be in school.
(c) It is his birthday.
(d) Lucille will meet her at the library.

4. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?
(a) a drawing of her husband
(b) her wedding picture
(c) a picture in a small locket
(d) a sailor out of a magazine

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruth have for lunch on the island?

2. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?

3. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?

4. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?

5. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe what happens the day the girls spend the night away from home.

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

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