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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 does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?
(a) gives them to friends at school
(b) throws them out
(c) gives them to Sylvie
(d) spreads them around the house

2. What does Sylvie say about the objections of the neighbors?
(a) She has no defense.
(b) that Ruth is happy
(c) to bug off
(d) that she is ill

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

4. What does Sylvie say her husband does for a living?
(a) He is unemployed.
(b) He is a sailor.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is a teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Ruth hear Lucille when her sister talks to her?

2. What does Ruth do when the trash fire has gone out?

3. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?

4. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?

5. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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