View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what conditions did the nuns find Consolata?
(a) She was destitute and living on the streets.
(b) She was having the time in her life working in a carnival sideshow.
(c) She had applied and been rejected by another convent.
(d) She was an aspiring model and developing an eating disorder.

2. Where is Lone when she hears the men talking?
(a) Near the community oven.
(b) In the back of the saloon.
(c) At Andy's candy apple stand.
(d) On the porch of her hairdressing shop.

3. Richard thinks that the older men of Ruby constantly tell stories of ancestor's efforts to found a town but never tell of what?
(a) The women who assisted them.
(b) Their own efforts.
(c) How they moved livestock.
(d) Where the ancestors hid the gold.

4. To whom do Pullman's accusatory statements seem directed at?
(a) Richard Misner.
(b) Toni.
(c) Bishop Jones.
(d) Abbess Connie.

5. What did the nuns operate at the convent before loosing funding?
(a) A homeless shelter.
(b) A school for girls.
(c) A recycling plant.
(d) A soup kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a young man doing when he caught Connie's attention for the first time?

2. What did Deek buy when he first came to Connie?

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

4. What is Lone DuPres's occupation?

5. What does Deek believe concerning the effects of the tea Connie gives Soane?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mavis buy toys every Christmas?

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

4. According to Lone, what do the Fleetwoods blame on the women of the Convent, and why does Lone think this makes no sense?

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

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

7. How has Patricia's genealogy project turned into a way for her to express her negative view of the people of Ruby?

8. What do some of the people that try to stop the massacre seem more concerned about than the welfare of the women of the Convent?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 791 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample