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

2. What does the housekeeper do on the second day?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Bleach Jack's dungarees.
(c) Make phone calls.
(d) Cook.

3. When John Woodrow was in the hospital, what did the other migrants think Ruby should do?
(a) Run away.
(b) Pull the plug.
(c) Go see John in the hospital.
(d) Ignore him.

4. After two months, why does Jack finally wash the sheets?
(a) For Mavis.
(b) They smelled bad.
(c) For Ruby.
(d) He wet the bed.

5. After spending a week with Ruby and Jack, how did June feel about leaving?
(a) Rebellious.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Sad.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ruby think that she and Jack could not have children?

2. What did Jack like to do to Cecil?

3. How did the mule die?

4. At the end of the second day, what happens to the housekeeper?

5. On her second day of work at the Hoover house, what did Ruby fear Tiny Fran would associate her with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the group's beach vacation.

2. What happened when Jack tried to cook for himself after Ruby's death?

3. After the week they got to spend with her, why were Jack and Ruby so upset went June went home?

4. How did Ruby remember first meeting Jack?

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

6. What did Burr do for his father when he died?

7. Why did Jack think that Ruby's ghost had visited him in the night?

8. Before leaving home, what had been Ruby's experience with cooking?

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

10. What did Roland finally get arrested for?

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