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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 excuse does Sylvie give the school for the girls' problems?
(a) that they are needed at home
(b) adolescent female troubles
(c) no money for shoes
(d) lack of clothes

2. What does Lucille tell the principal at school?
(a) go bug off
(b) She does not care about school.
(c) She has a new attitude.
(d) her aunt is insane

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

4. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?
(a) They move to separate bedrooms.
(b) They don't speak for several days.
(c) Sylvie puts them on restriction.
(d) Ruth cuts school.

5. What does Sylvie finally realize about the neighbors' objections?
(a) They are partially true.
(b) Someone in town is trying to get her in trouble.
(c) They are making them up.
(d) They mean to take Ruth from her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ruth do while Lucille is talking to girls at the drugstore?

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

4. What does Ruth do when Lucille talks with her?

5. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Sylvie and Ruth do the morning they return from the island?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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