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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does May become upset when Ruby insists on a certain type of fruit?
(a) She has to pay for them.
(b) She does not like that type of fruit.
(c) She does not like it when he gets his way.
(d) She is allergic to that fruit.

2. Due to the amount of teasing Ruth receives at school, what does she do?
(a) She asks Aunt Sid to take her bra shopping.
(b) She asks Aunt Sid for money to buy bras but lies and says the money is for a gift for May's birthday.
(c) She asks Aunt Sid for the money to buy bras.
(d) She asks Aunt Sid for the money for school supplies.

3. Ruby was a surprise baby, born prematurely in a time when his parents had believed what?
(a) They could not have children.
(b) They were done with childbearing.
(c) They did not want anymore children.
(d) They did not want any children.

4. Ruth tells Ruby's story as his counselor ________ told it to her.
(a) Sherry.
(b) Mary.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Jane.

5. When Elmer Grey began coming around, a widower with a farm of his own, May accepted his attentions and they were married when?
(a) Two years later.
(b) A short time later.
(c) A year later.
(d) Five years later.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miss Finch is taken to a nursing home for what reason?

2. A few weeks later, May and Ruby fight about what?

3. How many happy memories does Ruth have of her family?

4. On payday, Ruth hands her check over to May except for______ dollars which she puts away in a piggy bank.

5. Ruth remembers one birthday when May did what for her?

(see the answer key)

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