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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 Ruth do when Lucille talks with her?
(a) She does not respond.
(b) She cries.
(c) She fights with her.
(d) She slaps her in the face.

2. What does Lucille bring home from the store?
(a) a pound of hamburger
(b) a dozen eggs
(c) some school supplies
(d) a dress pattern and fabric

3. What does Sylvie believe Ruth thinks of her when she talks about the people on the island?
(a) that Sylvie is insane
(b) that she makes friends easily
(c) that Sylvie is lying
(d) that Sylvie is an artist

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

5. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?
(a) slaps her on the face
(b) goes home and cleans
(c) kicks her
(d) goes and calls the police

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sheriff do about Sylvie's efforts to change?

2. What does Ruth feel is most likely to occur due to all the fuss about Sylvie?

3. The morning after the girls stay out all night, what does Lucille want to do?

4. Why does Lucille ask Sylvie about her husband?

5. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff in answer to his inquiry in question # 164?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when the sheriff comes to the house to see about the fire Sylvie lit to burn trash?

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

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

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

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