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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is strewn across the island?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Silverware.
(c) Beer cans.
(d) Notebook pages.

2. What view does Sissie have of Jerry?
(a) He is kind to her.
(b) He is impatient.
(c) He is her best friend.
(d) He does not understand the world around him.

3. Why does Sissie first taste beer?
(a) She has always been curious about it.
(b) To be polite.
(c) She wants to be glamorous like her mother.
(d) She does not taste the beer.

4. Whom does Sissie most want to help?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her brothers.
(c) The bird.
(d) Her father.

5. How does Sissie describe Jerry's shoes?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Not as nice as her own.
(c) Frayed because he has had them forever.
(d) Spotless.

6. Whom does Sissie try to stay away from when she mentions the stuck bird?
(a) Her brothers.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Her aunt and uncle.
(d) Her father.

7. What is the outcome of Sissie's parents bickering at the tavern in the first summer?
(a) Sissie's aunt begins crying.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sissie's father takes the boys in the boat.
(d) Sissie's mother takes Sissie back home.

8. What does Sissie do after seeing a character vomiting?
(a) She begins crying and freezes.
(b) She calls her mother.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She begins yelling.

9. Where was the family in the first summer before they came to the tavern?
(a) A family dinner.
(b) At a birthday party.
(c) A parade.
(d) A festival for Independence Day.

10. Which of the following might be considered Sissie's tragic flaw in the first summer?
(a) Her love for her brothers.
(b) Her love for her parents.
(c) Her love for nature.
(d) Her fear of her family.

11. Which of the following literary devices is present in the book?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Dramatic irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Foreshadowing.

12. Where do Sissie and Jerry wait in the second summer chapter?
(a) On an island.
(b) Inside the bar.
(c) Inside a boat.
(d) Near the water.

13. In the second summer, what type of insect is described as hovering around tables?
(a) Ant.
(b) Fly.
(c) Flea.
(d) Wasp.

14. Whom does Sissie witness throwing up in the second summer?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Jerry.

15. Who claims to hate their father?
(a) Sissie.
(b) Frank.
(c) Jerry.
(d) Sissie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of innocence would be considered a theme in the book?

2. Whom is Sissie afraid of the second summer?

3. In the second summer, how long ago did Jerry get into big trouble?

4. Whom does Sissie describe as being similar to her father?

5. Which of the following is the name of Sissie's oldest brother?

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