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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. When did Ruby feel pleased with herself in Chapter 8?
(a) When she hugged Jack.
(b) When her bread rose.
(c) When she sewed.
(d) When she went to sleep at night.

2. What worried Ruby the most about dying?
(a) If she would go to hell.
(b) If she would go to heaven.
(c) What Jack would do.
(d) Where her soul would travel.

3. At the reception, what did Ruby joke about doing?
(a) Tiny Fran's dress.
(b) Poisoning Frances Hoover.
(c) Jack's penguin suit.
(d) Tiny Fran's virginity.

4. What is Jack's physique?
(a) Bulky.
(b) Muscular.
(c) Skinny.
(d) Short and round.

5. In Chapter 16, what does Jack pretend to do when visitors come to his house?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Sleep walk.
(c) Be happy.
(d) Ignore them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ruby lie to Jack about when they first met?

2. What did Jack like to do to Cecil?

3. What does the housekeeper spend the first day doing?

4. After finding out that John Woodrow was in the hospital, what did Ruby decide to do about the predicament?

5. How did Tiny Fran treat June?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jack finally decide to hire a housekeeper?

2. Why were the townspeople afraid of Ruby?

3. What did Jack and Ruby think happens to the soul after death?

4. Why did Ruby cry when she found out that John Woodrow was dead?

5. What happened to John Woodrow the night before Ruby and Jack met?

6. Who did Tiny Fran blame for the way Roland turned out? Who did Jack and Burr blame?

7. Why did Frances get mad at Ruby during Tiny Fran's wedding?

8. Who didn't attend Tiny Fran and Burr's wedding, and why?

9. What did Jack do to prepare for Ruby's spirit to visit him?

10. What did the other migrant workers criticize Ruby for?

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