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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the women of the Convent dance?
(a) In the rain.
(b) Wherever the people of Ruby hold community dances.
(c) Everywhere, day and night.
(d) On the roof of the barn.

2. What are Richard and Anna contemplating?
(a) Opening a day care business.
(b) Leasing land from the Convent.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Opening Ruby's first restaurant.

3. What was the occupation of the woman who took care of Lone after Lone's mother died?
(a) Textile worker.
(b) Teacher.
(c) MIdwife.
(d) Baker.

4. How does Lone get to the Convent to warn the women?
(a) She borrows Gigi's bicycle.
(b) She drives.
(c) She runs.
(d) She steals a horse.

5. Why was Menus forced to abandon the woman he brought from Virginia?
(a) She compulsively stole everything she could.
(b) She got pregnant, and Menus was afraid.
(c) She was too light skinned.
(d) She had a substance abuse problem.

6. What type of views does Patricia believe that Richard is teaching to the young people?
(a) Islamic.
(b) Militant.
(c) Pacifist.
(d) Buddhist.

7. What does Deek do immediately upon arriving at the Convent?
(a) He sets fire to the barn.
(b) He tries to find Connie to tell her to run.
(c) He drops to his knees and offers a prayer.
(d) He shoots the first woman he sees.

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

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

10. Why are some of the older residents of Ruby unhappy with Richard Misner?
(a) He speaks to the young people and encourages them to express their views.
(b) He drinks too much.
(c) He has seven illegitimate children.
(d) He steals from the church.

11. What does Arnette bring to the Convent after her wedding?
(a) Leftover flowers.
(b) A gun.
(c) Wedding cake.
(d) Her ruined dress.

12. What did Deek buy when he first came to Connie?
(a) Wine.
(b) Peppers.
(c) Papal indulgences.
(d) Religious artifacts.

13. What does Connie realize about Pallas before even Pallas knows?
(a) Pallas is pregnant.
(b) Pallas will rule the Convent.
(c) Pallas has smallpox.
(d) Pallas wants to kill Connie.

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

15. 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) K.D. agreed to marry Arnette only after Gigi stopped seeing him.
(c) Unlike Arnette, K.D. comes from a poor family.
(d) Arnette never really cared for K.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Connie spend an increasing amount of time?

2. In what conditions did the nuns find Consolata?

3. Connie and the man have regular meetings on what day of the week?

4. Patricia's father Roger often has ideas for new what?

5. Why did Pallas flee from her boyfriend and her mother?

(see the answer keys)

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