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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Ruth and Lucille do one day after school to eat?
(a) go to the minister
(b) steal food
(c) go fishing
(d) beg at the grocery store

3. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?
(a) Does she want to come home with him?
(b) Does she know where Lucille is staying?
(c) Is Sylvie abusing her?
(d) Is she hungry?

4. Why does the sheriff come by the house in Chapter 10?
(a) He comes to arrest Sylvie.
(b) He sees the fire.
(c) He finds their dog.
(d) He hears Sylvie screaming at Ruth.

5. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?
(a) in the farmhouse
(b) at home
(c) on the beach
(d) in the rowboat

6. What does Sylvie believe Ruth thinks of her when she talks about the people on the island?
(a) that Sylvie is an artist
(b) that Sylvie is lying
(c) that Sylvie is insane
(d) that she makes friends easily

7. What does Lucille complain to her friends about?
(a) the food they eat
(b) that her mother killed herself
(c) Sylvie's transient ways
(d) the tests in school

8. What does Sylvie say about the objections of the neighbors?
(a) that Ruth is happy
(b) She has no defense.
(c) that she is ill
(d) to bug off

9. What does Sylvie finally realize about the neighbors' objections?
(a) They are making them up.
(b) They mean to take Ruth from her.
(c) Someone in town is trying to get her in trouble.
(d) They are partially true.

10. What does Sylvie urge Ruth to do about the objections?
(a) to dress better
(b) to run away
(c) to keep silent
(d) to return to school

11. What prompts the sheriff's visit to Ruth's home?
(a) The dog is barking too much.
(b) The house has a strange smell.
(c) Ruth is spotted riding a boxcar.
(d) The yard has not been mowed.

12. What is wrong with the curtain in the kitchen?
(a) It is too long.
(b) It is too small.
(c) It is half burned.
(d) It is awful colors.

13. What does Lucille do when Sylvie returns to the house after leaving the park bench?
(a) slaps her
(b) goes to bed
(c) ignores her
(d) yells at her

14. What does Sylvie tell Ruth about the people on the island?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They have ten children.
(c) They are good friends.
(d) They are rich.

15. What does Sylvie say about the owner of the boat?
(a) He makes the boat with his hands.
(b) He may be a lunatic.
(c) He is her cousin.
(d) He has loaned her the boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who follows Sylvie and Ruth as they walk home?

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

3. What does Lucille want to do with the pressed flowers they find in a book?

4. Who begins to voice objections about Ruth's care?

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

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