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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. Who do the girls see at the lake after cutting school for a few days?
(a) the principal
(b) a teacher from school
(c) Molly
(d) Sylvie

2. How do Lily and Nona react to change?
(a) It thrills them.
(b) They like it fine.
(c) It frightens them.
(d) They are indifferent to it.

3. What is Sylvie wearing when the aunts see her?
(a) swim suit
(b) fur coat
(c) shorts and t-shirt
(d) salvaged clothes

4. What does Sylvie think about the aunts taking care of the girls?
(a) they're too angry
(b) that they're too old
(c) they're too young
(d) they're too strict

5. What do the aunts think about the rumors concerning Sylvie's instability?
(a) They are true but the aunts do not care.
(b) It was only when she was young.
(c) They are not true.
(d) They are exaggerated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie do about the girls' questions about their mother?

2. How does Lucille stay home from school?

3. What does their grandfather do when he arrives at the town?

4. Where do Lily and Nona live?

5. What might be wrong with Sylvie?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and how do Ruth and Lucille end up in Fingerbone?

2. What happens to the narrator's grandmother after her husband is killed?

3. What happens to the town the second week that Sylvie is in Fingerbone?

4. How do the girls lie to Lily and Nona about Sylvie and what happens as the result?

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

6. What do the girls like about Sylvie as far as their mother is concerned?

7. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

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

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

10. What does Ruth and Lucille's mother do after she leaves them on the front porch?

(see the answer keys)

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