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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 tell the principal at school?

2. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?

3. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?

4. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Lucille decide she and Ruth need to do about their life?

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

5. Why does Sylvie wake Ruth up before dawn after Lucille has left?

6. What does Lucille do when she can no longer stand living with Sylvie?

7. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

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

9. Why does the sheriff visit Ruth and Sylvie and what do some neighboring women do about his visit?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What do you think would have happened to Ruth and Lucille if they had been born in 1995 instead in the late 1940's or early 1950's? How would that differ from what happened to them in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Sylvie suggested the owner of a boat she steals is a lunatic? Do you think this reflects Sylvie's opinion of herself? Why?

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