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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. When do Sylvie and Ruth leave the island?
(a) the next moring
(b) early evening
(c) as soon as they see the farmhouse
(d) after nightfall

2. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?
(a) talking to a neighbor
(b) feeding the birds
(c) reading a book
(d) lying down with a newspaper over her face

3. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?
(a) Sylvie catches a rabbit.
(b) Sylvie sprains her ankle.
(c) Ruth falls asleep.
(d) Sylvie leaves.

4. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff about Ruth hiding in the orchard?
(a) she loses her shoe there.
(b) She is picking the apples.
(c) She is looking for the cat.
(d) They are playing a game.

5. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?
(a) indifferent
(b) scared
(c) uncomfortable
(d) happy

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?

2. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?

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

4. What does Sylvie do after the answer in question #105?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the neighboring women do about the condition of Ruth's house?

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

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