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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. Of what does the hands-off care from Sylvie remind Ruth?
(a) their father's behavior
(b) their grandmother's behavior
(c) their mother's behavior
(d) the teachers at school

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

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

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

5. 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) It will die out.
(c) Lucille will come back and help out.
(d) Sylvie will stay on top of things.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?

3. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they see and how do the neighboring women feel about Ruth and Sylvie's house?

2. What does Ruth think would have happened in her life if her mother had not killed herself?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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