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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 sort of family did Pallas come from?
(a) Mafia.
(b) Immigrant.
(c) Poor.
(d) Wealthy.

2. How does Lone feel about the young couples' tendency to go to hospitals to deliver their babies?
(a) Elated.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Indifferent so long as she receives her tax refund on time.
(d) Relieved that they are finally taking medical care seriously.

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

4. When Richard Misner arrives to visit Patricia, what does he want to know?
(a) If Patricia ever intends to pay her phone bill.
(b) The cost of installing a fence on his property.
(c) Billie's whereabouts.
(d) The name of his birth mother.

5. What in the basement attracts Connie?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Wine.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Solitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been injured in the automobile accident that Lone and Connie find?

2. What country was Consolata originally from?

3. Who is the man who has secret meetings with Connie?

4. Why did the original group traveling to what would become Ruby take some babies from their homes?

5. How many founding families arrived in Ruby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mavis buy toys every Christmas?

2. What was Pallas Truelove's situation before she arrived at the Convent?

3. What are some of K.D.'s thoughts about marriage that indicate that he still has an immature or naïve worldview?

4. What reasons does Patricia give for not approving of Richard's talks with the young people of the town?

5. Why do the Fleetwoods blame Lone for problems with their grandchildren, and what evidence is there that the situation was not Lone's fault?

6. How do the town of Ruby and the Convent share joint responsibility for the field of marijuana?

7. What do the women of the Convent do after Connie draws their outlines on the basement floor?

8. Why does Gigi receive fifty dollars for the box she finds under the bathtub?

9. What started the townspeople's idea that Billie was a wild child?

10. What are some possible reasons for Connie spending so much time in the basement?

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