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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. 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 flee in panic.
(d) They are not at all alarmed.

2. How does Patricia feel about the views she believes Richard is teaching to the young people?
(a) She is full of admiration.
(b) Enthusiastic.
(c) Skeptical but willing to help.
(d) She does not approve.

3. Why did the original group traveling to what would become Ruby take some babies from their homes?
(a) The babies' parents sold the babies to the founders.
(b) They were afraid white people would make them slaves.
(c) The babies were in intolerable circumstances.
(d) The founders knew they would need laborers to work in the fields.

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

5. Who is Arnette's maid of honor?
(a) Gigi.
(b) Pallas Truelove.
(c) Billie Delia.
(d) Seneca.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard thinks that the older men of Ruby constantly tell stories of ancestor's efforts to found a town but never tell of what?

2. How old was Consolata when she was found by the sisters including Mary Magna?

3. What is Lone DuPres's occupation?

4. What is one of the mishaps that the men of Ruby blame on the women of the Convent?

5. What does Connie realize about Pallas before even Pallas knows?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were the circumstances surrounding Ruby Best's death?

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

5. Why does Mavis buy toys every Christmas?

6. What is Richard Misner angry about?

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

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

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

10. Though she was welcomed back home by her father, why did Pallas return to the Convent?

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