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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reception does Ruby receive at home?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Anger and disappointment.
(c) Supportive.
(d) No one is home when Ruby arrives.

2. What does Ruby say is her weakness?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Baking.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Biology.

3. What does Jamie do on Christmas Eve?
(a) Pulls a sleigh behind his car.
(b) Falls asleep in the basement.
(c) Dresses in a Santa costume.
(d) Yells down the chimney.

4. What does Harriet call her new line of jewelry?
(a) Unlock.
(b) KeyChains.
(c) Open Sesame.
(d) Lock me in.

5. To how many colleges has Ruby applied?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

6. Who answers the door at Marshall's place?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Peyton.
(c) Rogerson.
(d) No one.

7. What does Cora say she could have done when she left home?
(a) Contacted the authorities.
(b) Forced their mother into rehab.
(c) Worked harder to stay in touch.
(d) Rented an apartment and taken care of Ruby.

8. What does Ruby see that makes her run home?
(a) A heron flying overhead.
(b) A fire truck.
(c) An ambulance.
(d) A crowd of people near her house.

9. What does Ruby try to ask Nate?
(a) About his school absences.
(b) About his situation.
(c) About his brother.
(d) About his mother.

10. What does Nate convince Ruby to do?
(a) Stop studying and go around delivering with him.
(b) Take a puppy he finds.
(c) Go swimming at his house.
(d) Go to the beach.

11. What is Ruby and Cora's mother made to do?
(a) Do community service.
(b) Go into rehab.
(c) Go to prison.
(d) Stay under house arrest.

12. What does Ruby realize the next morning?
(a) Jaime is not speaking to her.
(b) She lost her wallet while drunk.
(c) She is unhappy at Cora and Jaime's house.
(d) She loves her life with Cora and Jaime.

13. Why has Olivia picked up Laney?
(a) Laney is late for work.
(b) Laney is crying.
(c) Laney is late for a doctor's appointment.
(d) Laney hurt herself running.

14. What question does Nate ask Ruby?
(a) Why their mother left Ruby alone.
(b) If Ruby loves her mother.
(c) What it was like living on her own.
(d) What she thinks of Nate.

15. What does Olivia say has been horrible for her?
(a) Having to work in the theater.
(b) Being on restrictions.
(c) The change to the new school.
(d) Losing her boyfriend to such a loser.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Nate and Ruby go on one of their errands?

2. What photos are on the wall of the apartment where they deliver the duvet cover?

3. What does Gervais want in return?

4. What is one thing Ruby concentrates on in December?

5. What does Ruby learn about her father?

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