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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 Sylvie bring home after the fight with Lucille over the park bench?

2. What does Lucille see when she turns the lights on in the kitchen one night?

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

4. What picture does Sylvie show Lucille as her husband?

5. When do Sylvie and Ruth leave the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sylvie do when she and Ruth stop at an abandoned farmhouse on the island?

2. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

3. How does Ruth respond to Lucille when she begs Ruth to leave Sylvie?

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

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

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

7. What happens when the sheriff comes to the house to see about the fire Sylvie lit to burn trash?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucille finally gives up on Sylvie and gets taken in by a teacher at school. How did this affect Ruth? How do you think you would have reacted to the same situation?

Essay Topic 2

As time goes by and Sylvie stays with the girls, the two sisters have different reactions and feelings towards Sylvie's eccentricities. Describe their differences and write about how you believe you would feel in the same circumstances.

Essay Topic 3

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

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