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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 settle for with Sylvie?
(a) any nurturing she can get
(b) a messy house
(c) a lot of lectures
(d) bad food

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

3. What does Sylvie do after the answer in question #105?
(a) sends Lucille to bed
(b) cooks dinner
(c) leaves the house
(d) sits down

4. What does Sylvie think Ruth can do with the children on the island?
(a) She can play with them.
(b) She can feed them.
(c) She can catch them.
(d) She can talk them into going to school.

5. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?
(a) calls the police
(b) makes them go to school
(c) wraps them in warmed quilts
(d) screams at them

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ruth have for lunch on the island?

3. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when Ruth and Lucille try to sew?

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

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

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

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