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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 does Amanda recall little Ruth wanting to do when she and Mathilda want to sleep?
(a) Scream.
(b) Eat.
(c) Swim.
(d) Sing.

2. Whom does Amanda meet while helping to subdue Private Buckle?
(a) Carl.
(b) Rudy.
(c) Clement.
(d) Joe.

3. Whom is Ruth speaking with as the novel opens?
(a) Carl.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Joe.
(d) Imogene.

4. Who takes Ruth out on Fridays?
(a) Joe.
(b) Imogene.
(c) Carl.
(d) Rudy.

5. Whom does Carl find chin-deep in frigid water at the lake?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Mathilda.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Imogene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month does Mathilda and Carl get married in?

2. What does Amanda teach Ruth to do in Part 2, Chapter 10?

3. What town does Amanda work in?

4. Whom does Imogene consider being in a past life?

5. What does Clement invent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare Ruth's popularity at school to Imogene's.

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

3. What does Clement convince Theresa to invest in?

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

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

6. What happens on the morning when Ruth cries for her mother?

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

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

9. Discuss the dream Amanda has involving Mathilda.

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

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