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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruby continues to see his counselor who pushes him to do what?

2. Who walks Ruth down the aisle?

3. Tensions begin to grow again as what happens?

4. What does Ruth decide to do for a few days?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when May, Ruby, and Ruth go to pick apples?

2. What does Ruth decide she and Ruby should do? How does this turn out? Why?

3. What job does Ruby finally get?

4. How does May feel about Ruth's engagement to Ruby? Why? How is May appeased?

5. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 16?

6. How did Ruby's father treat him?

7. What takes place between Ruth and Ruby at the beginning of this section?

8. Describe the time between Ruth and Ruby's marriage and when tension begins.

9. What does Daisy suggest Ruth do? How do the others feel about this idea?

10. What time does Ruth remember as one of the best times in her marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tensions build in the Grey-Dahl household.

Part 1) How do tensions build at various times in the story? Why do they build? How does this tension affect the various characters?

Part 2) Is this tension worse at the end of the story? Why or why not? Could this tension have been relieved at any point? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 3) How does tension help to move the plot along? How does it create action in this story?

Essay Topic 2

Ruth and Matt graduate.

Part 1) How is each of them affected by this graduation? Why? What does this reveal about their futures?

Part 2) How do the family dynamics change? How does May feel about this? Why?

Part 3) Could Ruth have had a better future? Why or why not? Should Matt have acted differently toward his family at this point? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

May is murdered.

Part 1) Describe the events leading up to her murder. Is her murder foreshadowed? Explain.

Part 2) Describe her murder. How is Ruth affected by this? How might it change her permanently?

Part 3) Could her murder have been prevented? If so, how? If not, why not? How might the various have found peace with May's death?

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