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

2. What does Ruby realize in the morning?
(a) That Nate is her age.
(b) That Jamie wasn't fooled about Ruby trying to leave.
(c) That Cora wants Ruby out of the house.
(d) That Jaime is going to help her leave.

3. Who picks up Ruby?
(a) A social worker.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) The police.

4. Why does Ruby decide to buy clothes?
(a) She loves buying clothes.
(b) Because Cora would be angry if Ruby does not.
(c) She has lost weight and her clothes don't fit her well.
(d) Her old clothes do not fit in with this high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby refuse from Nate?

2. Who are the Honeycutts?

3. Where does Jaime work?

4. What does Ruby say she intends to refuse?

5. To what sound does Ruby awaken on Saturday morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Marshall and what kind of relationship do Ruby and Marshall have?

2. What is Jaime showing Ruby at the opening to the novel and who else is there?

3. What does Ruby think about as far as her childhood before Cora leaves home?

4. Where does Ruby go from the mall and what important piece of information does Marshall gain from the encounter?

5. How is Ruby stopped the first night from running away?

6. What decision has Ruby made concerning living with Cora and Jaime, but how does she hedge her bets?

7. What happens when Nate takes Ruby back to her former home?

8. What does Ruby learn at the fish store and what fish does Ruby choose?

9. What does Jaime want Ruby to do when he picks her up at school one afternoon and what is her response?

10. How does Ruby describe Olivia's behavior in literature class?

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