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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 do the girls clear off the kitchen table?
(a) Sylvie's can collection
(b) newspapers
(c) a couple of cats
(d) dirty dishes

2. Why do Sylvie and Ruth go to the lake?
(a) to feed the ducks
(b) to fish
(c) to see where Ruth's grandfather died
(d) to visit the island

3. What prompts the sheriff's visit to Ruth's home?
(a) The house has a strange smell.
(b) The yard has not been mowed.
(c) The dog is barking too much.
(d) Ruth is spotted riding a boxcar.

4. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
(a) sprinkles them in the front yard
(b) seeps them for tea
(c) puts them in the dinner salad
(d) puts them in another book

5. What does Sylvie bring home after the fight with Lucille over the park bench?
(a) a small puppy
(b) huckleberries
(c) hamburger
(d) milk

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie say about the owner of the boat?

2. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?

3. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?

4. What do neighboring women bring to Ruth and Sylvie?

5. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Sylvie do when she and Ruth stop at an abandoned farmhouse on the island?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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