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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. How does Jack feel about Ruby after she has passed?
(a) He loves and misses her.
(b) He is glad she is gone.
(c) He is indifferent.
(d) He doesn't know she's dead.

2. How does Ruby die?
(a) Old age.
(b) Farming accident.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Lung cancer.

3. What did Mrs. Hoover tell Tiny Fran to do?
(a) Help Ruby clean.
(b) Wash her hair.
(c) Sit and rest.
(d) Make lunch.

4. What does Ruby say scares a man?
(a) Having to re-marry.
(b) A sick woman who was once strong.
(c) The thought of cooking for himself.
(d) Spiders.

5. How important was land to Jack?
(a) Very important.
(b) He didn't know.
(c) He was ambivalent.
(d) Not at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. After John's death, why didn't Ruby go back to her family's farm?

2. What did serving at Tiny Fran's wedding make Ruby think of?

3. Whose property did Jack turn down?

4. Where did Ruby and John finally land?

5. What did Ruby do that Jack loved?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What memory did Ruby recall when thinking of her diagnosis?

3. What happened the last time Ruby saw John Woodrow?

4. How did Jack acquire his gun, and what did he use it for?

5. Why did Ruby marry John Woodrow?

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

7. What kind of person was Tiny Fran?

8. Describe Ruby's upbringing and why she was unprepared for someone like John Woodrow.

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

10. What was Jack's mother like?

(see the answer keys)

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