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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 plan to use to lure the children?
2. Why does Sylvie give Lucille money?
3. What does Lucille do with the dress pattern and fabric?
4. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?
5. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the sheriff comes to the house to see about the fire Sylvie lit to burn trash?
2. How does Ruth respond to Lucille when she begs Ruth to leave Sylvie?
3. What does Ruth think would have happened in her life if her mother had not killed herself?
4. When the school sends letters to Sylvie about the girls' truancy, what does Sylvie do?
5. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?
6. What does Ruth think about the loss of her mother in relationship to her thoughts on Cain and Abel?
7. What do the girls do when the weather turns warm?
8. In Chapter 10, what does Sylvie do to continue to change enough to keep Ruth?
9. What happens when Lucille yells at Sylvie about sleeping on the bench?
10. What is Sylvie's reaction to the town's concerns about her and Ruth?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Sylvie became frantic that Ruth might be taken from her? Support your opinion with evidence from the book.
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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