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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruby understand about Cora's promise?
(a) That Cora just could not carry through on it.
(b) That Cora never intended to do what she said.
(c) That Cora was too depressed to come back.
(d) That Jaime kept Cora from following through on her promise.

2. What excuse do the Honeycutts use to check out Ruby's home?
(a) An electrical problem.
(b) A new lampshade.
(c) Replacing some slats in the porch floor.
(d) A plumbing problem.

3. Why did Ruby's mother often use false names?
(a) To keep Ruby's father from finding them.
(b) To keep the children welfare away.
(c) To avoid creditors.
(d) To get the utilities turned on.

4. What is Commercial Courier?
(a) A limo company.
(b) An airport shuttle service.
(c) A taxi company.
(d) A company that delivers luggage lost by the airlines.

5. To what sound does Ruby awaken on Saturday morning?
(a) A lawn mower.
(b) Music.
(c) A leaf blower.
(d) A backhoe.

6. What does Cora make Ruby do when she comes downstairs?
(a) Change into a different sweater.
(b) Eat some breakfast.
(c) Change into a looser pair of pants.
(d) Saw grace.

7. Why is there a line stretched across the kitchen?
(a) To hang wet clothes.
(b) To hang photographs.
(c) To keep light from coming in the window.
(d) To hang pots.

8. What does Nate suggest to Harriet?
(a) She go see a movie Nate has just seen.
(b) She trust Ruby.
(c) She make arrangements for auto bill pay with his father's company.
(d) She rearrange a display.

9. What is Jamie Hunter showing Ruby?
(a) A picture she painted.
(b) Her new bedroom.
(c) Her new puppy.
(d) A rabbit.

10. What does Ruby refuse from Nate?
(a) A ride.
(b) Collaborating on their English assignment.
(c) Help with math.
(d) Nothing.

11. What does Ruby discover Nate did?
(a) Bought her a Christmas present.
(b) Made her a Christmas present.
(c) Quit the swim team.
(d) Left home.

12. What does Gervais say about Ruby?
(a) That her hair is a cool color.
(b) That her eyes are a cool color.
(c) That her shampoo stinks.
(d) That her dress is ugly.

13. What color is the fish Ruby picks for the pond?
(a) Gold.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Silver.

14. How does Cora defend herself about the wedding?
(a) That Cora told their mother.
(b) That Ruby did not answer Cora's messages.
(c) That Ruby was into drugs then.
(d) She does not defend herself.

15. Who is Olivia?
(a) The biology teacher.
(b) A black girl sitting next to Ruby in class.
(c) Cora's best friend.
(d) The only student Ruby has known before in her other high school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Reggie need?

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

4. How long has Ruby's mother been gone before it is noticed?

5. What does Ruby say she intends to refuse?

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