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

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

3. How does Jack react to Ruby's diagnosis?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) He accepts that she will die soon.
(c) He doesn't think she will die.
(d) He vows to keep her alive.

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

5. When they first met, what did Jack tell Ruby about her husband?
(a) He smelled bad.
(b) He would leave her.
(c) He was a jerk.
(d) He had been in a bar fight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who showed Ruby how to smoke?

3. What did Burr truly think of Tiny Fran?

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

5. What is Ruby's bad habit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Ruby die, and why was this so frustrating for Jack?

5. When Jack shot his gun, what did Ruby think of and why didn't she tell Jack?

6. How did Jack meet Ruby?

7. What is Jack's last memory of Ruby?

8. What did Ruby plan to do to John Woodrow after she caught him cheating?

9. How did Jack plan to win Ruby over?

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

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