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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Ruby chosen to work in the Hoover house?
(a) No one else wanted to.
(b) John set it up for her.
(c) She volunteered.
(d) She didn't look like she had the gall to steal anything.

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

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

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

5. What does Jack think that he will die with that will carry on?
(a) Friends.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The world.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jack do with his gun?

2. Why did Burr agree to marry Tiny Fran?

3. What does Ruby realize a dying person needs?

4. When they had lunch in the Pitt's house, what did the migrant workers do?

5. When Ruby is in her coffin, what does Jack do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Ruby's mother invited the migrant workers into the house for lunch?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what was Ruby doing, and why?

3. What kind of person was Tiny Fran?

4. What land did Jack turn down, and why?

5. After they were married, how did John Woodrow treat Ruby?

6. How did Jack meet Ruby?

7. What did Jack once think that Lonnie Hoover would give and didn't?

8. Describe Jack's experience with women before Ruby.

9. Why did Lonnie Hoover ask Burr to marry Tiny Fran?

10. Why did Frances Hoover want Ruby to serve at Tiny Fran's wedding?

(see the answer keys)

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