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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 the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?

2. What does Lucille tell the principal at school?

3. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?

4. What does Sylvie say about her relationship with her husband?

5. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ruth feel about hanging out with the girls from school?

2. What do they see and how do the neighboring women feel about Ruth and Sylvie's house?

3. What does Ruth think would have happened in her life if her mother had not killed herself?

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

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

6. What does Ruth think about the loss of her mother in relationship to her thoughts on Cain and Abel?

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

8. What do Sylvie and Ruth do the morning they return from the island?

9. What happens when Sylvie and Ruth take a boat at the lake?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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