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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ruby is in her coffin, what does Jack do?
(a) Knocks over the casket.
(b) Fixes her make-up.
(c) Hides her ashy fingers.
(d) Gives her a kiss.

2. What does Ruby realize a dying person needs?
(a) To be told everything is going to be ok.
(b) To be held and confronted with reality, not empty consolation.
(c) Lots of food.
(d) Fun.

3. How much older than Ruby was Jack?
(a) They were the same age.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) One year.

4. What did Ruby do that Jack loved?
(a) Baked pies.
(b) Sang.
(c) Danced.
(d) Scrubbed the floor.

5. What does Ruby wish she could change?
(a) Her whole life.
(b) Her name.
(c) Her marriage.
(d) Her diagnosis and the way she handled Jack that day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jack feel about Ruby after she has passed?

2. Who is Jack's wife?

3. What did Jack admire about Ruby?

4. Who is the narrator of Chapter 1?

5. What is Ruby's dying request?

(see the answer key)

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