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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the aunts ask Sylvie to do?
(a) come back to Fiingerbone
(b) contact the family lawyer
(c) find Mary
(d) take the girls to Wyoming

2. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?
(a) wading the waters
(b) swimming
(c) by rafts
(d) by boat

3. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?
(a) lies to them
(b) ignores them
(c) pretends she doesn't know the answer
(d) she answers them

4. What is Ruth and Lucille's mother's name?
(a) Priscilla
(b) Lulu
(c) Helen
(d) Bethany

5. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.
(b) The girls eavesdrop.
(c) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(d) They girls have great hearing.

6. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?
(a) they don't understand each other
(b) they're rivals
(c) they are indifferent to each other
(d) close sisterly bond

7. Why do Ruth and Lucille skip school?
(a) They are bullied by other students.
(b) They were not prepared for a test.
(c) They did not want to give the teacher a note.
(d) It ias too hot so they go swimming.

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

9. What does Helen do after the girls settle on their grandmother's porch?
(a) visits the graveyard where her father was buried
(b) drives into the lake
(c) leaves and never came back
(d) jumps off the train bridge

10. What does Ruth fear about Sylvie?
(a) She cannot find any food.
(b) She has left them.
(c) She has died.
(d) She has fallen in the water.

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

12. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?
(a) Sylvie
(b) a teacher from school
(c) the principal
(d) Molly

13. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?
(a) She slips in the water.
(b) She leaves the children for a month.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She does not come back upstairs.

14. Where did the sisters' father grow up?
(a) in the south
(b) in New York
(c) Middle West
(d) in Alaska

15. Why do Ruth and Lucille follow Sylvie when she leaves the house the day after she arrives there?
(a) They are afraid she will leave.
(b) They think she is not dressed properly for the weather
(c) They think she will get lost.
(d) They think she is going to buy them something.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?

2. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?

3. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

4. What kind of residence do Lily and Nona have?

5. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?

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