View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ruby and John get married?
(a) They eloped.
(b) In a church.
(c) At Ruby's family farm.
(d) In Las Vegas.

2. Who interrupted Jack and Ruby's first conversation?
(a) John Woodrow.
(b) Tiny Fran.
(c) A migrant worker.
(d) June.

3. What did Jack do with his gun?
(a) Used it for target practice.
(b) Showed it to little kids.
(c) Killed John.
(d) Nothing.

4. What did Jack think Lonnie might will to him someday?
(a) Tiny Fran.
(b) Money.
(c) Land.
(d) A tractor.

5. Who hated Ruby?
(a) Burr.
(b) Tiny Fran.
(c) June.
(d) Jack.

6. After finding her husband with another woman, what did Ruby do?
(a) Bought a pistol.
(b) Freaked out.
(c) Attacked her husband.
(d) Filed for divorce.

7. What did Jack like about Ruby when he first met her?
(a) She smelled nice.
(b) She was short.
(c) She wasn't flirty with him; they had a real conversation.
(d) She smoked.

8. Who gave Jack a gun?
(a) John.
(b) Burr.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Tiny Fran.

9. How could Jack tell Ruby was not a typical migrant worker?
(a) By her smooth skin.
(b) He knew her family.
(c) He knew all the other migrants and had never seen her.
(d) She spoke with a French accent.

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

11. What does Jack think of Ruby's dying request?
(a) It is disgusting.
(b) It is reasonable.
(c) It is selfish.
(d) It is impossible.

12. Where did Jack first see Ruby?
(a) In the barn.
(b) In her house.
(c) At the movies.
(d) Under a pecan tree at the Hoover's.

13. Who thought it was a bad idea to let the migrants in the Pitt's house for lunch?
(a) Sudie Bee.
(b) John Woodrow.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Lonnie Hoover.

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

15. What did serving at Tiny Fran's wedding make Ruby think of?
(a) Sudie Bee scolding a servant for sticking his fingers in the cake.
(b) Her hatred for Tiny Fran.
(c) A fancy dinner.
(d) Her own sorry wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ruby chosen to work in the Hoover house?

2. What is Ruby's bad habit?

3. Who had Jack proposed to before Ruby?

4. Why was Ruby told to clean the Hoover house so thoroughly?

5. What did Burr truly think of Tiny Fran?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 443 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample