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

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

3. What is one of Patricia's hobbies?
(a) Quilting.
(b) Genealogy.
(c) Geology.
(d) Stamp collecting.

4. Why does Lone believe that the women of the Convent could not possibly be responsible for the handicaps of the Fleetwood children?
(a) The first of the children were born before the women arrived at the Convent.
(b) The cancerous growths of the children are from uranium, and the women of the convent do not have access to uranium.
(c) Lone knows that she alone is responsible.
(d) Lone believes that the women of the Convent are perfect and can do no wrong.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the women of the Convent dance?

2. When Richard Misner arrives to visit Patricia, what does he want to know?

3. What does Deek do immediately upon arriving at the Convent?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of prejudice does Patricia witness in Ruby?

2. Why do some people believe that Senior Pullman's negative remarks are directed at Richard Misner?

3. What do Arnette and Soane have in common in terms of being parents?

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

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

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

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

8. How do the women react to Lone's warning that men are coming to harm them?

9. What does Deek believe that the tea that Connie gave Soane causes, and why is this ironic?

10. What is Richard Misner angry about?

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