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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. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?

2. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?

3. What happens to the girls when they return to school after skipping for a week?

4. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?

5. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where do the girls go after the flood water recedes and what happens there?

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

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

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

7. How do you think the girls might be feeling when they figure out their Aunts Lily and Nona don't want them?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did you feel about the ending of this book? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Sylvie became frantic that Ruth might be taken from her? Support your opinion with evidence from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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