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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. Who refrains from commenting on Ruth's friendship with Imogene?
(a) Clement.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Carl.
(d) Eliza.

2. What causes Amanda to be sick in Part 1, Chapter 7?
(a) Carl taking Ruth away.
(b) Her mother's death.
(c) Mathilda's death.
(d) Her pregnancy.

3. What town does Amanda work in?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Milwaukee.
(d) Montgomery.

4. Who does not hit if off well upon their meeting?
(a) Mathilda and Carl.
(b) Ruth and Mathilda.
(c) Ruth and Carl.
(d) Ruth and Amanda.

5. Who mimics Hilda?
(a) Carl.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Joe.
(d) Rudy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the school that Ruth attends?

2. Who is considered to be uppity at Mathilda's birth?

3. What does Carl compare the lake to when talking with Ruth?

4. What type of book does Amanda have?

5. Who asks Amanda to come home in Part 1, Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Amanda recall about little Ruth in Part 2, Chapter 10?

2. What does Ruth remember about the night she hid under the bed at the cabin?

3. Discuss Carl's trip to the island.

4. What are Amanda's thoughts involving her pregnancy?

5. What does Clement contemplate in Part 1, Chapter 5?

6. What do Ruth and Imogene discuss about their mothers?

7. What occurs when Clement prepares to go to Washington?

8. Discuss the conversation Ruth and Amanda have as the novel opens.

9. Who is Hilda Grossman? What is her role in the novel?

10. Who is Bert Weiss?

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