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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 want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
2. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?
3. What does Lucille tell the principal at school?
4. What does Sylvie show Ruth on the island?
5. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?
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 Lucille asks about her husband?
3. What do the neighboring women do about the condition of Ruth's house?
4. When the school sends letters to Sylvie about the girls' truancy, what does Sylvie do?
5. What do Sylvie and Ruth do the morning they return from the island?
6. What happens when Sylvie and Ruth take a boat at the lake?
7. Why does Sylvie wake Ruth up before dawn after Lucille has left?
8. Describe what happens the day the girls spend the night away from home.
9. What happens when Ruth and Lucille try to sew?
10. In Chapter 10, what does Sylvie do to continue to change enough to keep Ruth?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
By chapter five, we are beginning to see a picture of Sylvie as a person who does not seem to pay much attention to everyday life. What about Sylvie seems strange to you and does her strangeness make her more or less attractive to you? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Why do you think Ruth and Lucille liked Sylvie when they met her? Use examples from the book and give your own opinion in your answer.
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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