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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lily and Nona do about Sylvie and the girls?
(a) go to the lawyer's with them
(b) ignore Sylvie's problems
(c) lecture them
(d) serve them dinner

2. Why do the girls hear the aunts talking about them?
(a) They talk loud because they are half deaf.
(b) The aunts talk in the same room with the girls.
(c) They girls have great hearing.
(d) The girls eavesdrop.

3. How long do the girls stay with their grandmother?
(a) seven years
(b) a couple of weeks
(c) five years
(d) two years

4. Why does the town of Fingerbone flood?
(a) The lake overflows.
(b) There are three weeks of heavy rain.
(c) The snow melts.
(d) The dam breaks.

5. Why does Sylvie think the woman with four children is alone?
(a) Her children were taken from her.
(b) She is on her way home.
(c) The woman's husband has the children.
(d) She does not have any money to feed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people in Fingerbone travel the lower lying areas of town during the flood?

2. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?

3. Why does Sylvie bond with Ruth and Lucille?

4. What kind of relationship do Lily and Nona have?

5. What do the girls do at home in their free time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sylvie leaves the house when she first gets to Fingerbone?

2. What do the girls do to keep Sylvie from going downstairs during the flood?

3. How does the grandfather's house fare in the flood?

4. What does Sylvie do in response to Lily and Nona's ads?

5. What are the attitudes of Ruth and Lucille towards Sylvie's eccentricities?

6. What happens when Sylvie goes downstairs during the flood after telling the girls a story?

7. What does Ruth do when Sylvie will not come upstairs when the house is flooded?

8. What do the girls see at the lake while skipping school?

9. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

10. How do Lily and Nona feel about being in Fingerbone and caring for Ruth and Lucille?

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