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

2. What does Sylvie say her husband does for a living?
(a) He is unemployed.
(b) He is a sailor.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is a teacher.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?

2. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?

3. What does Ruth do when the trash fire has gone out?

4. What does Sylvie finally realize about the neighbors' objections?

5. What does Sylvie tell Ruth about the people on the island?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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