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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 as they walk home?

2. What does the sheriff asks Sylvie when he stops by the house?

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

4. What does Sylvie do after the answer in question #105?

5. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the girls do when the weather turns warm?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Sylvie do when Lucille asks about her husband?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think Lily and Nona were able to justify leaving the girls with Sylvie? Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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