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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Honey Creek is a small farm town in the ______________ part of Illinois.
(a) Easternmost.
(b) Westernmost.
(c) Northernmost.
(d) Southernmost.

2. What could Ruth's teachers not help doing?
(a) Comparing her to Matt.
(b) Ignoring her.
(c) Comparing her to the other students.
(d) Teasing her.

3. For _____ years, May lived with her parents, doing the chores with the younger children.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

4. Matt lives in a world that does not include who?
(a) Ruth.
(b) May.
(c) May and Ruth.
(d) Anyone but himself.

5. It was a rare bit of praise for a child overshadowed by whom?
(a) Her little brother.
(b) Her older brother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father's friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Matt often shone in school, actually skipping a grade. How did this affect Ruth?

2. Sid came to make amends with May over an argument dealing with what?

3. Ruth remembers the early letters Aunt Sid sent to her, filled with what stories?

4. What does May not buy Ruth?

5. Ruth's father left when she was ______, just drove away and went to Texas to pick grapefruit and never returned.

(see the answer key)

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