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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. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?

2. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?

3. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?

4. Where does Sylvie go when she leaves the house the day after she meets Ruth?

5. What does a teacher say about Lucille when they return to school following the flood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Sylvie tell during their stay upstairs to escape the flood waters? How do Ruth and Lucille react?

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

3. What does the grandmother plan to do with the girls when she dies?

4. What do the girls like about Sylvie as far as their mother is concerned?

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

6. How do the girls lie to Lily and Nona about Sylvie and what happens as the result?

7. How do Lily and Nona feel toward each other?

8. What do Ruth's mother and two aunts do following their father's death?

9. Why do Ruth and Lucille believe their aunt is an unstable person?

10. When and how do Ruth and Lucille end up in Fingerbone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think the sheriff should have done something sooner about Sylvie and the girls? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Ruth and Lucille's life would look like if their mother had not committed suicide?

Essay Topic 3

By chapter five, we are beginning to see a picture of Sylvie as a person who does not seem to pay much attention to everyday life. What about Sylvie seems strange to you and does her strangeness make her more or less attractive to you? Why?

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