1. After Arnette returns from college, what does she refuse to do?
(a) Wash dishes.
(b) Do her homework.
(c) Get out of bed.
(d) Attend youth political meetings.

2. What do some residents of Ruby want to do to the community oven?
(a) Convert it from wood to gas fueled.
(b) Clean it with lye.
(c) Rename it.
(d) Fit it with a better exhaust system.

3. While the issue of Arnette's pregnancy is being worked out, what woman is K.D. most fascinated with?
(a) Gigi.
(b) Toni.
(c) Mavis.
(d) Connie.

4. What does the woman who hires Seneca claim she needs?
(a) A model for her painting.
(b) A typist.
(c) A live-in nurse.
(d) A cook.

5. What is Gigi searching for when she arrives in Ruby?
(a) Employment.
(b) A mountain that looks like two lovers locked in embrace.
(c) Her birth mother.
(d) Mavis's Cadillac.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unwashed, unprepared objects in the pantry at the Convent lead the men to believe that the women at the Convent are lazier than the women in Ruby?

2. Why does Mavis begin walking instead of driving the Cadillac?

3. What two Convent women have a physical altercation?

4. Who was the only person to die in the town that became Ruby, Oklahoma during a period of two decades?

5. How many children has Lone DuPres delivered since the last of the Fleetwood children?

(see the answer key)

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