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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. How was their grandfather's childhood house built?
(a) was a stone cottage
(b) dug out of the ground
(c) made of wood
(d) made of straw bales

2. Where does their grandfather end up when he leaves home?
(a) Mt. Helena
(b) Shinbone
(c) Allocaster
(d) Fingerbone

3. For what do Ruth and Lucille depend on each other?
(a) for help with school
(b) for survival
(c) to fight with their grandfather
(d) for cooking meals

4. How do Lily and Nona feel about Fingerbone?
(a) They love it.
(b) They hate it.
(c) They're indifferent to it.
(d) They're curious about it.

5. Who are Lily and Nona?
(a) the grandmother's sisters
(b) Helen's sisters
(c) the grandmother's sisters-in-law
(d) Ruth's sisters

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lucille feel about all the freedom Sylvie gives them?

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

3. During the flood, what happens when Sylvie goes downstairs?

4. How does Sylvie talk to Ruth and Lucille?

5. In what state is the town after the flood waters recede?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ruth and Lucille's response to Lucille's encounter with her teacher?

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

3. What does the narrator say about her grandfather's youth in the first chapter?

4. How do you think the girls might be feeling when they figure out their Aunts Lily and Nona don't want them?

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

6. How do Lily and Nona feel about children?

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

8. How does Sylvie feel about Ruth and Lucille going to school?

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

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

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