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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lone hear the men plotting?
(a) A way to set a trap for the community oven vandals.
(b) An attack on the Convent.
(c) A vote of no confidence for the sitting mayor.
(d) A way to cheat in the stock market.

2. Who does Pallas believe she should contact?
(a) Her old boyfriend.
(b) The police.
(c) Her high school guidance counselor.
(d) Her father.

3. What two Convent women have a physical altercation?
(a) Mavis and Gigi.
(b) Seneca and Sweetie.
(c) Pallas and Connie.
(d) Arnette and Billie.

4. Who has been injured in the automobile accident that Lone and Connie find?
(a) Deek Morgan.
(b) Mary Magna.
(c) Scout Morgan.
(d) Soane Morgan.

5. Connie and the man have regular meetings on what day of the week?
(a) Fridays.
(b) Tuesdays.
(c) Saturdays.
(d) Wednesdays.

6. Why is Billie skeptical about the chances of a happy marriage between Arnette and K.D.?
(a) Arnette had to give up her dream of being a blues singer to marry K.D.
(b) Arnette never really cared for K.D.
(c) K.D. agreed to marry Arnette only after Gigi stopped seeing him.
(d) Unlike Arnette, K.D. comes from a poor family.

7. To what institution did the foundation donate the Convent?
(a) The United States Department of the Interior.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) The Bureau of Land Management.
(d) The State of Oklahoma.

8. Where does Connie spend an increasing amount of time?
(a) The confessional.
(b) The basement.
(c) The community oven.
(d) Deek Morgan's house.

9. What does Soane want Connie to help her with?
(a) She wants help finding an escaped goat.
(b) She wants to learn how to use an abacus.
(c) She wants to be rid of her unborn child.
(d) She wants to learn food preservation techniques.

10. What is one deed the Convent is blamed for that was actually committed by K.D.?
(a) The report to the governor.
(b) The planting of marijuana.
(c) The theft of the mine payroll.
(d) The contamination of the well.

11. What are K.D. and Arnette expecting?
(a) A home loan.
(b) A new job for K.D.
(c) A baby.
(d) To win the lottery.

12. How do the women respond to Lone's warning?
(a) They send Mavis to inform the state police.
(b) They flee in panic.
(c) Under Connie's supervision they begin constructing fortifications.
(d) They are not at all alarmed.

13. How old was the man when he finally came to Connie?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Seventeen.

14. What is one of the mishaps that the men of Ruby blame on the women of the Convent?
(a) The low price of cotton.
(b) The depleted ozone layer.
(c) Acid rain.
(d) The death of the young couple in the car.

15. How does Patricia feel about the views she believes Richard is teaching to the young people?
(a) Enthusiastic.
(b) She is full of admiration.
(c) She does not approve.
(d) Skeptical but willing to help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard thinks that the older men of Ruby constantly tell stories of ancestor's efforts to found a town but never tell of what?

2. What does Connie realize about Pallas before even Pallas knows?

3. How does Lone feel about the young couples' tendency to go to hospitals to deliver their babies?

4. How many founding families arrived in Ruby?

5. Why was Menus forced to abandon the woman he brought from Virginia?

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