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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruby think when Jaime picks her up at school one afternoon?
(a) That he's learned about her visits to Marshall.
(b) That something is wrong with her mother.
(c) That he is going to tell her she has to leave.
(d) That something is wrong with Cora.

2. What does Ruby realize about a habit in the morning going into the school?
(a) Ruby is no longer smoking pot before going into the school.
(b) Ruby has started letting Gervaise walk with her into the building.
(c) Ruby has started carrying a cup coffee in the morning to school.
(d) Ruby allows Nate to walk into the building with her.

3. What sort of jobs did Ruby's mother hold?
(a) Highly stressful.
(b) Dead-end jobs.
(c) High paying.
(d) Those requiring a college degree.

4. What does Ruby say when asked where her mother is?
(a) She is in the looney bin.
(b) She does not know.
(c) She runt away from home.
(d) In Las Vegas.

5. What did Cora used to do when she still lived with Ruby and their mother?
(a) Make Ruby keep up with her homework.
(b) Hit their mother.
(c) Protect Ruby.
(d) Make their mother go to bed and sleep off a drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ruby find Roscoe when she hears him barking?

2. What does Ruby notice about Harriett as Ruby continues to work?

3. What does Cora point out about riding the city bus?

4. Why does Cora give Ruby two hundred dollars?

5. What has Ruby given up on about two weeks after she's been at Perkins Day?

(see the answer key)

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