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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?
(a) makes pancakes
(b) goes to bed
(c) sings
(d) watches television

2. What does Lucille beg Ruth to do when they are out of the house?
(a) run away with her
(b) not go back to Sylvie
(c) get a job
(d) tell the minister what is going on in their house

3. What does Sylvie do when the girls come home in the morning after staying out all night?
(a) wraps them in warmed quilts
(b) screams at them
(c) makes them go to school
(d) calls the police

4. How does Ruth feel about talking to people from school?
(a) scared
(b) uncomfortable
(c) happy
(d) indifferent

5. What do the neighbors see on the floor of the house?
(a) muddy foot prints
(b) nothing
(c) dog droppings
(d) fallen leaves

6. What does Sylvie do after the answer in question #105?
(a) sits down
(b) leaves the house
(c) cooks dinner
(d) sends Lucille to bed

7. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?
(a) Sylvie puts them on restriction.
(b) They move to separate bedrooms.
(c) Ruth cuts school.
(d) They don't speak for several days.

8. What does Lucille see when she turns the lights on in the kitchen one night?
(a) their school books
(b) three cats
(c) total disorder
(d) Ruth sleeping

9. What does Sylvie do when Lucille asks her if she knows where the sisters spent the night?
(a) puts them on restriction
(b) says she watched them all night
(c) laughs
(d) shrugs her shoulders

10. What does Lucille bring home from the store?
(a) a pound of hamburger
(b) a dress pattern and fabric
(c) some school supplies
(d) a dozen eggs

11. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff in answer to his inquiry in question # 164?
(a) Ruth is upstairs in bed.
(b) She did not steal a boat.
(c) Lucille is staying with a teacher.
(d) She does not know where their father is.

12. What is in the letter Sylvie receives in Chapter 10?
(a) scheduling a custody hearing
(b) taking Ruth from her
(c) the letter from Ruth's father asking for her
(d) a letter from Molly saying she was coming home

13. Who begins to voice objections about Ruth's care?
(a) the sheriff
(b) Lucille
(c) the neighbors
(d) the school

14. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?
(a) a boy from school
(b) barking dogs
(c) Lucille and her friends
(d) a black cat

15. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?
(a) eat breakfast
(b) hop a train
(c) see Lucille
(d) Ruth goes to school, Sylvie goes home

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?

2. What does Sylvie say her husband does for a living?

3. How does Sylvie try to gain acceptance of her custody?

4. What does Ruth believe her mother's death has turned Ruth's memories of her into?

5. What does the sheriff tell Ruth about the next day?

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