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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 does the sheriff asks Sylvie when he stops by the house?
(a) where the girls' father is
(b) where Lucille is staying
(c) if she stole a boat
(d) to talk to Ruth

2. What does Ruth want to do with the pressed flowers they find?
(a) seeps them for tea
(b) sprinkles them in the front yard
(c) puts them in another book
(d) puts them in the dinner salad

3. What do the girls clear off the kitchen table?
(a) a couple of cats
(b) dirty dishes
(c) Sylvie's can collection
(d) newspapers

4. What does Sylvie tell the sheriff about Ruth hiding in the orchard?
(a) she loses her shoe there.
(b) She is looking for the cat.
(c) They are playing a game.
(d) She is picking the apples.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvie do while the girls eat in the kitchen?

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

3. What does Sylvie say about her relationship with her husband?

4. What happens after the girls fight over the flowers?

5. What does Sylvie do when she comes home with the answer in question #108?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucille demand of Sylvie about dinner?

2. How does Ruth feel about hanging out with the girls from school?

3. When Lucille turns the lights on in the kitchen one night what does she see?

4. What do the neighboring women do about the condition of Ruth's house?

5. What do Sylvie and Ruth do the morning they return from the island?

6. In Chapter 10, what does Sylvie do to continue to change enough to keep Ruth?

7. What happens when the sheriff comes to the house to see about the fire Sylvie lit to burn trash?

8. Why does Sylvie wake Ruth up before dawn after Lucille has left?

9. What does Sylvie do when she and Ruth stop at an abandoned farmhouse on the island?

10. When the school sends letters to Sylvie about the girls' truancy, what does Sylvie do?

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