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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Lily and Nona do the night the girls tell them why they're outside with Sylvie?
(a) pack up and leave
(b) go to the store themselves
(c) call Mary
(d) call child welfare

3. 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 is going to buy them something.
(d) They think she will get lost.

4. Who does their grandmother live with after the grandfather's death?
(a) her three daughters
(b) her two nephews
(c) no one, she lives alone
(d) her three dogs

5. How do Lily and Nona make new friends?
(a) They do volunteer work.
(b) They do not make new friends.
(c) They join a garden club.
(d) They play bridge.

6. What kind of pictures does the grandfather paint?
(a) red deserts
(b) unreal seascapes
(c) purple forests
(d) of imaginary mountains

7. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?
(a) She loved Helen.
(b) She listens to them with interest.
(c) She does not tell them what to do.
(d) She is young herself.

8. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?
(a) They hate it.
(b) They love it.
(c) They're indifferent to it.
(d) They're curious about it.

9. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too strict
(b) that they're too old
(c) they're too angry
(d) they're too young

10. How does the grandfather die?
(a) a tree falls on him
(b) from polio
(c) a grizzly bear mauls him
(d) train goes off the bridge

11. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?
(a) shorts and t-shirt
(b) swim suit
(c) salvaged clothes
(d) fur coat

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

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

14. What do Ruth and Lucille hear often in the night?
(a) screech owls chasing each other
(b) a banging in the attic
(c) the wind off the lake
(d) Sylvie crying or singing

15. What do the girls tell Lily and Nona about why they were outside with Sylvie?
(a) that she wanted to take them to the store
(b) that they were disobeying her
(c) that she needed directions to the lawyer's
(d) that she thought it was too cold for them to be out

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?

2. Where are the food and necessities at the house during the flood?

3. What does Sylvie do when Ruth begs her to come upstairs?

4. What does Lucille have to take to school after she is absent?

5. What happens when the girls tell Sylvie they skipped school?

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