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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Ruby told to clean the Hoover house so thoroughly?
(a) The governor was coming to dinner.
(b) It was filthy.
(c) Mrs. Hoover was anal retentive.
(d) In preparation for Tiny Fran's wedding.

3. Why did Frances want Ruby to serve at Tiny Fran's wedding?
(a) No one else would do it.
(b) She liked the idea of having a white servant.
(c) Ruby asked if she could help out.
(d) Frances wanted Ruby and her daughter to be friends.

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

5. Why did Ruby marry John Woodrow?
(a) Her mother told her to.
(b) She had known him all her life and really loved him.
(c) He was the first to ask and she didn't have the sense to say "No."
(d) Her father made her do it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lonnie ask Burr to marry Tiny Fran?

2. How does Jack react to Ruby's diagnosis?

3. Who showed Ruby how to smoke?

4. What did Jack do when his father died?

5. What does Jack think of Ruby's dying request?

(see the answer key)

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