St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which motif do “Ava Wrestles the Alligator,” “Haunting Olivia,” and “Accident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422” all explore?

A) Sexual awakening

B) Parental abandonment

C) Difficulties with step-parents

D) The lingering aftereffects of death

2. Which motif do “The City of Shells” and “Accident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422” both explore?

A) Sexual awakening

B) Parental abandonment

C) Difficulties with step-parents

D) The lingering aftereffects of death

3. What do Ollie in “The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime,” Reg in “Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows,” and Elijah in “Z. Z.’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers” all have in common?

A) They each have a twin sibling.

B) They are afraid of becoming independent adults.

C) They each commit a crime.

D) They are being raised by single parents.

4. What is the most frequent setting for the stories in this collection?

A) The American West

B) An island in Florida

C) An unnamed forest

D) An unnamed mountain

5. Which of the following is a common theme in many of the stories in this collection?

A) Growing up can be painful.

B) People are easily manipulated through sex.

C) Poverty encourages bad choices.

D) Not everyone deserves to be saved.

6. Which is the most common traumatic experience the characters in these stories are trying to cope with?

A) The death of parents

B) Sexual assault

C) Loneliness and isolation

D) Illness and the infirmities of old age

7. Which stories most clearly convey the message that a healthy present often means letting go of the past?

A) “The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime” and “Haunting Olivia”

B) “Haunting Olivia” and “Z. Z.’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers”

C) “Z. Z.’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers” and “from Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration”

D) “from Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration” and “The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime”

8. What trait makes Elijah and Ogli in “Z. Z.’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers” similar to Oliver and Molly in “The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime”?

A) Elijah and Ogli share dreams.

B) Elijah and Ogli are like twins.

C) Elijah and Ogli are cousins.

D) Elijah and Ogli fight constantly.

9. Which character appears in both “The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime” and “The City of Shells”?

A) Barnaby

B) Lillith

C) Molly

D) Raffy

10. Which story is most clearly concerned with assimilation and erasure?

A) “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”

B) “Out to Sea”

C) “Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows”

D) “from Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration”

11. What do Laramie in “The City of Shells” and Ossie in “Ava Wrestles the Alligator” have in common?

A) Their jealousy creates unnecessary obstacles for the stories’ protagonists.

B) Their impulsive thrill-seeking leads the stories’ protagonists to make poor choices.

C) They model a level of sexual maturity the stories’ protagonists are not ready for.

D) They offer essential advice when the stories’ protagonists most need it.

12. Which is the most common narrative perspective in this collection?

A) First-person point of view, from the perspective of a child

B) First-person point of view, from the perspective of an adult

C) Third-person point of view, focused on a child’s perspective

D) Third-person point of view, focused on an adult’s perspective

13. Which is a motif shared by “Haunting Olivia,” “Accident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422,” and “The City of Shells”?

A) Betraying a friend

B) Seeing ghosts

C) Causing an accident

D) Getting lost

14. Which is the most commonly used symbol in this collection?

A) Snow and ice

B) Animals

C) Water

D) Dreams

15. Which fabulist element recurs in “The City of Shells” and “Haunting Olivia”?

A) Visible spirits

B) Magical goggles

C) Giant shells

D) Talking animals

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. Which two stories in the collection feature human-animal hybrids, and what does this hybridity signify?

2. In what sense are Ava, from “Ava Wrestles the Alligator,” and Lillith, from “The City of Shells,” opposites in their approach to their problems?