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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Sylvie doing on a park bench?
(a) reading a book
(b) talking to a neighbor
(c) feeding the birds
(d) lying down with a newspaper over her face

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

4. Why does Lucille ask Sylvie about her husband?
(a) to spite her
(b) she wanted to know who he was
(c) she was curious
(d) she thought he might visit

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

7. How does Ruth believe her mother would have treated the sisters if she had lived?
(a) She would have been a good mother.
(b) She would have ignored them.
(c) She would have abused them.
(d) She would have given them to their father.

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

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

10. Why do Sylvie and Ruth go to the lake?
(a) to see where Ruth's grandfather died
(b) to feed the ducks
(c) to visit the island
(d) to fish

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

12. What does Ruth plan to use to lure the children?
(a) a book
(b) marshmallows
(c) a pretty doll
(d) hot dogs

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

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

15. What does Ruth do when the trash fire has gone out?
(a) hides in the orchard
(b) goes to the lake
(c) eats dinner
(d) goes to bed

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Sylvie and Ruth spend the night?

3. What does Ruth have for lunch on the island?

4. What do Sylvie and Ruth do when they return to the main land?

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

(see the answer keys)

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