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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 the young man who walks into Anna's store seek?
(a) Bargain liquor.
(b) The justice of the peace.
(c) Medicine for a baby and directions.
(d) A job.

2. What did the men do together before telling K.D. to get his rifle?
(a) Appeal to the local sheriff for help.
(b) Eat.
(c) Send a telegram to the state police.
(d) Pray in an Indian sweat lodge.

3. Who is the youngest male in the Morgan family?
(a) Frank.
(b) Steward.
(c) Deek.
(d) K.D.

4. Who was Ruby Best's husband?
(a) Pete Best.
(b) As a nun she considered herself married to God.
(c) Roger Best.
(d) She was a lifelong spinster.

5. What is the purpose of the meeting that K.D. knows will be held later in the day?
(a) K.D.'s uncles will try to find a solution to K.D. having impregnated Arnette.
(b) K.D. plans to ask his family for permission to enlist in the Army.
(c) K.D. plans to meet with the Sheriff.
(d) K.D. will meet with the cattle rustlers to plan a nighttime raid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Connie have an affair with?

2. Who is Soane's husband?

3. Who gives Gigi a ride away from Ruby?

4. Why does Gigi remain at the Convent rather than continue on with Roger?

5. Where had most of the residents of Ruby resided prior to starting the town of Ruby?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mavis get confused and diverted from her intention to go straight to California?

2. Why do the men from Ruby go to the Convent?

3. When there is a problem in Ruby who handles it?

4. What does Connie do to earn a meager income?

5. How do the men from Ruby justify such drastic action against the women at the Convent?

6. How does the plot not flow in a chronological manner in the chapter "Ruby"?

7. What conditions does Mavis's mother place on Mavis being able to stay at her house?

8. Why is there instant animosity between Mavis and Gigi?

9. Why is the town of Ruby not a place that attracts travelers?

10. When Gigi accepts a ride from Roger Best, what are her plans at that time?

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