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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 happens when the girls tell Sylvie they skipped school?

2. Where do Lily and Nona live?

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

4. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sylvie look like when she arrives in Fingerbone?

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

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

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

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

6. What happens when Sylvie goes downstairs during the flood after telling the girls a story?

7. What does Sylvie do in response to Lily and Nona's ads?

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

9. What do the girls do to keep Sylvie from going downstairs during the flood?

10. What happens to the narrator's grandmother after her husband is killed?

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

Do you think Sylvie's relationship with the girls is similar to their mother's relationship with them? Use examples from the book to illustrate your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Ruth and Lucille's mother commits suicide in the first chapter. How do you think this event affected Ruth and Lucille's emotional and mental health? What do you think could cause a mother to commit suicide with two small children waiting for her at home?

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