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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. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth at the lake?

2. What prompts the sheriff's visit to Ruth's home?

3. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?

4. What is in the letter Sylvie receives in Chapter 10?

5. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

2. What do the neighboring women do about the condition of Ruth's house?

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

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

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

6. What happens when Lucille yells at Sylvie about sleeping on the bench?

7. What happens when Ruth and Lucille try to sew?

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

9. In Chapter 10, what does Sylvie do to continue to change enough to keep Ruth?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sylvie goes into a frantic mode to try and convince the town that she is capable of caring for Ruth. Do you think people can change that fast? Do you think people, once they are adults, can change at all? Support your position with illustrations from the book and your own life.

Essay Topic 2

Sylvie comes home after Lucille yelled at her with huckleberries and made pancakes for the girls. Why do you think she did this?

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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