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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 Lucille beg Ruth to do when they are out of the house?

2. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?

3. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?

4. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?

5. How does Sylvie try to gain acceptance of her custody?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When the school sends letters to Sylvie about the girls' truancy, what does Sylvie do?

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

4. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

5. What does Lucille do about the sewing after fighting with Ruth?

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Do think Sylvie is mentally ill? Use examples from the book to support your position.

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