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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth write to Mary about in Chapter 2?
(a) The relief she feels at being home.
(b) Puberty.
(c) How she wishes she were wealthy so she could travel the world.
(d) How she hates being home.

2. Who introduces Swedish traits into the population?
(a) A settlement that lives on the mainland.
(b) The immigrants working in the quarries.
(c) The rich families.
(d) No one.

3. What does Ruth do during her summers in Chapter 2?
(a) She tans and swims with friends.
(b) She works at an ice cream shop.
(c) She works as a sternman for her father.
(d) She spends quality time with her mother.

4. What produces a distinctive population on these islands?
(a) The intermarriage among the Scottish and the Irish.
(b) A native race that resides only on these islands.
(c) The intermarriage among the Germans and the Japanese.
(d) The settlers did not and have not married outside their race.

5. Why do the islanders shun Ruth?
(a) Because of her strange appearance.
(b) Because of her bad attitude.
(c) Because of her education.
(d) Because of her ancestry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the workers do when the granite industry folds?

2. What is Ruth's first word?

3. What are the quarries on the islands filled with?

4. What does Senator Simon Adams deliver in Chapter 1?

5. Who is Ruth?

(see the answer key)

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