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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who claims to hate their father?
(a) Frank.
(b) Sissie.
(c) Jerry.
(d) Sissie's father.
2. Who wishes that their father were dead?
(a) Sissie's sister.
(b) Sissie.
(c) Jerry.
(d) Frank.
3. Which of the following people are at home taking care of a child in the second summer?
(a) Sissie's brother.
(b) Sissie's aunt.
(c) Sissie's friend.
(d) Sissie's mother.
4. What is the reaction of the adults to Sissie's brothers and their begging?
(a) They reply negatively to the boys.
(b) The boys are disciplined.
(c) They ignore the boys.
(d) They reply positively to the boys.
5. In Part 2, where is Frank?
(a) With his friends.
(b) Inside a bar.
(c) At home babysitting.
(d) At school.
6. Whom does Sissie witness throwing up in the second summer?
(a) Her father.
(b) Jerry.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Jesse.
7. Which of the following describes Jerry's tone of voice as he waits with Sissie for his father?
(a) Whiny.
(b) Demanding.
(c) Whispering.
(d) Shrill.
8. How is the narrator's voice best described?
(a) The voice of a child.
(b) The voice of ignorance.
(c) The voice of angst.
(d) The voice of anger.
9. In the second summer, how long ago did Jerry get into big trouble?
(a) Days ago.
(b) Months ago.
(c) Years ago.
(d) Weeks ago.
10. What view does Sissie have of Jerry?
(a) He does not understand the world around him.
(b) He is impatient.
(c) He is her best friend.
(d) He is kind to her.
11. When Sissie witnesses a character vomiting, where are they doing it?
(a) Into a trash can.
(b) Into the water.
(c) Onto the island's soil.
(d) In the same place she once saw a trapped bird.
12. Whom do Sissie's brothers beg to do something?
(a) Sissie's father.
(b) Sissie's mother.
(c) Sissie's aunt.
(d) Sissie's father's friend.
13. What do Sissie's parents bicker about in the first summer?
(a) Whether she should get a haircut.
(b) Whether the family should leave.
(c) Whether they should be allowing children in the tavern.
(d) Taking the children out on the lake.
14. Whom does Sissie describe as being similar to her father?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Jerry.
(d) Frank.
15. What can Sissie see from her seat as she plays a game?
(a) A playground.
(b) A beach.
(c) A sandpit.
(d) A lake.
Short Answer Questions
1. What view does Sissie have of Frank?
2. Which character would be best described as vulnerable?
3. Where is Sissie in the second summer?
4. Whom does Sissie try to stay away from when she mentions the stuck bird?
5. Which of the following indicates that time has passed between the first two parts of the book?
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