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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?

2. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?

3. How do Ruth and Lucille see Sylvie as far as her competence to be a caretaker?

4. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?

5. Where is Sylvie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth do when Sylvie will not come upstairs when the house is flooded?

2. What do Lily and Nona decide to do about being in Fingerbone?

3. What happens to the town the second week that Sylvie is in Fingerbone?

4. What is Ruth and Lucille's response to Lucille's encounter with her teacher?

5. How do Lily and Nona feel about being in Fingerbone and caring for Ruth and Lucille?

6. What does Ruth and Lucille's mother do after she leaves them on the front porch?

7. What do the girls know about Sylvie after one day in the house?

8. How does Sylvie feel about Ruth and Lucille going to school?

9. How does the grandfather's house fare in the flood?

10. Where does the narrator's grandfather end up when he leaves home and what happens to him there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think would have happened to Ruth and Lucille if they had been born in 1995 instead in the late 1940's or early 1950's? How would that differ from what happened to them in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Lucille seems to want a "normal" household. Do you think this is true of most children? Explain your answer with illustrations from your life.

Essay Topic 3

Lucille finally gives up on Sylvie and gets taken in by a teacher at school. How did this affect Ruth? How do you think you would have reacted to the same situation?

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