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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jack do when his father died?
(a) Yelled at God.
(b) Yelled at Lonnie.
(c) Walked away.
(d) Took a nap.

2. Why was Ruby angry about having to serve at Tiny Fran's wedding?
(a) She hated Tiny Fran.
(b) She resented being the prized white servant.
(c) She wanted to sleep in that day.
(d) She hated weddings.

3. How did John Woodrow plan to buy a house?
(a) By saving.
(b) By gambling.
(c) By building one himself.
(d) By asking Ruby's father for her portion of her inheritance early.

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

5. Why did Lonnie ask Burr to marry Tiny Fran?
(a) No one else would ask her.
(b) Tiny Fran had her eye on Burr.
(c) Tiny Fran was pregnant.
(d) Burr loved Tiny Fran.

6. What did Ruby think of when Jack shot his gun?
(a) Murderers.
(b) Tiny Fran.
(c) June.
(d) John Woodrow.

7. What was the first thing Jack ever said to Ruby?
(a) She was hot.
(b) To watch out for Tiny Fran.
(c) She shouldn't smoke.
(d) He hated her husband.

8. Whose property did Jack turn down?
(a) June's.
(b) Ruby's.
(c) Tiny Fran's.
(d) Burr's.

9. Who showed Ruby how to smoke?
(a) Jack.
(b) Tiny Fran.
(c) John Woodrow.
(d) June.

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

11. What does Jack always mess up?
(a) Picking things up at the grocery store.
(b) Showing love.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Saying the right thing.

12. What does Jack say are the two things that carry on after you die?
(a) Love and freedom.
(b) The world and universe.
(c) Friends and relatives.
(d) Land and children.

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

14. Why did Burr agree to marry Tiny Fran?
(a) Lonnie threatened to kill him if he didn't.
(b) Burr loved Tiny Fran.
(c) He wanted the land Lonnie offered in exchange for marrying her.
(d) He was lonely.

15. Who is Jack's wife?
(a) Tiny Fran.
(b) June.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Frances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby realize a dying person needs?

2. Before John, what was the worst thing to happen to Ruby?

3. How does Ruby die?

4. Would Jack have turned down Tiny Fran if she had been offered to him?

5. What did Burr truly think of Tiny Fran?

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