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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 Ruth have for lunch on the island?
2. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?
3. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?
4. What shocks the neighboring women about Ruth's house?
5. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do they see and how do the neighboring women feel about Ruth and Sylvie's house?
2. What does Sylvie do when she and Ruth stop at an abandoned farmhouse on the island?
3. What does Lucille do when she can no longer stand living with Sylvie?
4. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?
5. What does Ruth think about the loss of her mother in relationship to her thoughts on Cain and Abel?
6. How does Ruth feel about hanging out with the girls from school?
7. What happens when Lucille yells at Sylvie about sleeping on the bench?
8. What does Sylvie do when Lucille asks about her husband?
9. What do the girls do when the weather turns warm?
10. Why does the sheriff visit Ruth and Sylvie and what do some neighboring women do about his visit?
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 do you think Ruth and Lucille feel about themselves, taking into account their father deserting them, their mother committing suicide and their aunts, Lily and Nona, not wanting to stay with them? Illustrate your answer from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Compare the physical setting of the novel, Fingerbone, with the events that have been shown in the sister's lives in chapter one. How does one reflect the other? What foreshadowing to the rest of the narrator's life, might be gleaned from the descriptions of Fingerbone and the types of events common in that town?
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