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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sylvie give Lucille money?
(a) to buy a sewing machine
(b) to buy clothes
(c) to buy meat and vegetables
(d) to buy toothpaste

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

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

4. What does Sylvie bring home after the fight with Lucille over the park bench?
(a) milk
(b) hamburger
(c) huckleberries
(d) a small puppy

5. What goes over them while they sleep?
(a) a train
(b) a screech owl
(c) an airplane
(d) the full moon

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

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

8. Why do Ruth and Lucille stop going to school in March?
(a) They visit their father.
(b) They run out of clean clothes.
(c) There is no school.
(d) The weather is warm.

9. How does Sylvie try to gain acceptance of her custody?
(a) cleaning the house
(b) attending church
(c) cooking healthy meals
(d) talking to the neighbors

10. When do Sylvie and Ruth leave the island?
(a) as soon as they see the farmhouse
(b) after nightfall
(c) the next moring
(d) early evening

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

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

13. What happens while Ruth is looking at the frost?
(a) Ruth falls asleep.
(b) Sylvie leaves.
(c) Sylvie catches a rabbit.
(d) Sylvie sprains her ankle.

14. What does Lucille do when they find Sylvie on the park bench?
(a) slaps her on the face
(b) goes home and cleans
(c) kicks her
(d) goes and calls the police

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the pressed flowers the sisters find?

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

3. Where do Ruth and Lucille spend the night out?

4. What does the sheriff ask Ruth when she comes out of the orchard?

5. What do Ruth and Lucille do one day after school to eat?

(see the answer keys)

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