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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Ruby test recipes on?
(a) June.
(b) Lonnie.
(c) Tiny Fran.
(d) Jack.

2. How does Jack's first solo meal turn out?
(a) He burns it.
(b) The book doesn't say.
(c) Raw and awful.
(d) Perfect.

3. What is Jack's physique?
(a) Bulky.
(b) Muscular.
(c) Short and round.
(d) Skinny.

4. Who had to bail the migrant workers out of jail in the middle of the night?
(a) Lonnie.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Jack.
(d) John Woodrow.

5. Who does Jack hire as a housekeeper?
(a) Burr.
(b) Cecil.
(c) Mavis.
(d) Tiny Fran.

6. What did John Woodrow die of?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Collapsed lungs.
(c) Aneurysm.
(d) Gangrene.

7. Why didn't Jack and Ruby adopt any children?
(a) They didn't actually want kids.
(b) They had June in their lives.
(c) They weren't allowed to do so.
(d) They wanted their own.

8. Who was miserable when Burr's family went to the beach with Jack and Ruby?
(a) June.
(b) Tiny Fran.
(c) Burr.
(d) Jack.

9. At the end of the book, what does Burr give Jack?
(a) A room in his house.
(b) A birthday card.
(c) A new wife.
(d) Land.

10. Who threw Cecil out of the house?
(a) Burr.
(b) Roland.
(c) Jack.
(d) June.

11. How was June not ruined?
(a) June never knew Tiny Fran.
(b) Ruby, Jack and Burr would step in on her behalf.
(c) June went to boarding school.
(d) June never knew Roland.

12. At the end of the story, what does Jack put on for Ruby?
(a) Christmas pajamas and two-tone shoes.
(b) New overalls.
(c) Clean underwear.
(d) Cologne.

13. Where did Ruby hide a gun?
(a) On top of the refrigerator.
(b) Behind the toilet.
(c) In the bottom of her bag where the lingerie had been.
(d) In a ditch.

14. Who did not attend Burr's wedding?
(a) Tiny Fran.
(b) His parents.
(c) Jack.
(d) Lonnie.

15. What worried Ruby the most about dying?
(a) If she would go to heaven.
(b) If she would go to hell.
(c) Where her soul would travel.
(d) What Jack would do.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the second day, what happens to the housekeeper?

2. How did the mule die?

3. Who received Ruby's portion of her family inheritance?

4. After Ruby's ghost doesn't visit him, what does Jack do the next day?

5. What finally landed Roland in jail?

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