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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Ruby and Cora feel about Jaime's Christmas card idea?
(a) Bah Humbug.
(b) Happy.
(c) Enthusiastic.
(d) Not enthusiastic.

2. What supposedly keeps Ruby from hitting Gervais?
(a) His braces with a headgear.
(b) He might cry.
(c) She thinks he is not really that bad.
(d) He would tell his mother on her.

3. What does Cora point out about riding the city bus?
(a) Ruby will have to get up very early.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ruby will have to earn the money for the bus.
(d) Ruby will have no ride if she misses the bus.

4. What does Cora promise Ruby when Cora leaves home?
(a) She'll come back for her.
(b) She won't let their mother hurt Ruby.
(c) She'll keep in touch.
(d) She'll get their mother help.

5. Why does Ruby ride with Nate to school on Monday morning?
(a) She oversleeps and misses the bus.
(b) She decides she likes him well enough.
(c) She wants to get to know him.
(d) She feels sorry for him.

6. Where does Ruby go after the convenience store?
(a) Her old home.
(b) Nate's house.
(c) The track.
(d) The library.

7. What does Ruby notice about Nate?
(a) He is very popular.
(b) He is very much the All-American jock type.
(c) He has dyed his hair orange.
(d) He is not very good looking.

8. Who is Melissa West?
(a) Nate's neighbor on the other side of Ruby.
(b) A girl who is dating Olivia's boyfriend.
(c) Jamie's sister.
(d) Cora's good friend.

9. What does Ruby say about Cora's wedding?
(a) That Ruby is sorry she didn't go.
(b) That Ruby is glad she didn't go.
(c) That Cora should have tried harder to find Ruby.
(d) That Ruby was not invited.

10. What happened to Ruby's mother?
(a) She became an alcoholic.
(b) She lost interest in life.
(c) She because a drug addict.
(d) She had a stroke which changes her personality.

11. What does Ruby realize about the ride to school in the morning?
(a) Nate does not really want her to ride with him.
(b) Nate is trying to improve them.
(c) She has begun to like Gervais.
(d) She looks forward to them.

12. What does Ruby say when asked where her mother is?
(a) She is in the looney bin.
(b) She does not know.
(c) She runt away from home.
(d) In Las Vegas.

13. What does Ruby say about Gervais?
(a) That he's actually quite funny.
(b) That he has a few screws loose.
(c) That he's just a kid and not to be taken seriously.
(d) How annoying he is.

14. Who is Olivia?
(a) The biology teacher.
(b) A black girl sitting next to Ruby in class.
(c) The only student Ruby has known before in her other high school.
(d) Cora's best friend.

15. How is Gervais characterized?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Extremely rude.
(d) Talkative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reggie need?

2. Why does Ruby decide to buy clothes?

3. What has Ruby given up on about two weeks after she's been at Perkins Day?

4. What does Ruby realize in the morning?

5. What excuse do the Honeycutts use to check out Ruby's home?

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