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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?
(a) ignore Sylvie's problems
(b) go to the lawyer's with them
(c) serve them dinner
(d) lecture them

2. Who is the person in question #77 talking with at the lake?
(a) some hobos
(b) a fisherman
(c) a carpenter
(d) two school teachers

3. Why does Lucille complain during the flood?
(a) She is hungry.
(b) She is bored.
(c) She misses school.
(d) She misses going to church.

4. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for cooking meals
(b) for survival
(c) for help with school
(d) to fight with their grandfather

5. How do Helen and the girls visit their grandmother?
(a) they flew in a plane
(b) in a borrowed car
(c) by taking the train
(d) they went by horse back

6. What does the grandmother want Lily and Nona to do?
(a) care for Ruth and Lucille
(b) move to Florida
(c) find Ruth's father
(d) find Mary

7. What story does Sylvie tell the girls while waiting out the flood?
(a) about a woman on a bus
(b) about blue birds in spring
(c) about her husband
(d) about her sister Molly

8. What alarms Ruth and Lucille about the state government?
(a) They can take children from their homes.
(b) They make children go to school.
(c) They tax people.
(d) They want to arrest Sylvie.

9. What happens when the girls tell Sylvie they skipped school?
(a) She takes them to school.
(b) She just says she did not realize that.
(c) She scolds them.
(d) She takes them to the store.

10. Where are Ruth, Lucille and Sylvie marooned during the flood?
(a) on the roof
(b) on the top floor of the house
(c) in the attic
(d) in the church

11. Where were Ruth and Lucille born?
(a) Seattle
(b) Portland
(c) Boise
(d) Tallahassee

12. What does a teacher say about Lucille when they return to school following the flood?
(a) that she cheats
(b) that she 8is being transferred to another teacher
(c) that she needs to work harder
(d) that she is a star pupil

13. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?
(a) She comes upstairs.
(b) She slaps Ruth.
(c) She leaves the house.
(d) She quits talking to her.

14. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) a couple of weeks
(b) five years
(c) seven years
(d) two years

15. Where is Sylvie?
(a) she is living in Europe
(b) she is in Kentucky
(c) she has no known address
(d) she is in Spokane

Short Answer Questions

1. To where are Lily and Nona going to move?

2. What do the girls do at home in their free time?

3. Who does Sylvie think Ruth is when Ruth finds her downstairs?

4. Where did the sisters' father grow up?

5. What did Ruth and Lucille's father do when the girls were young?

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