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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like when Ruth is born?
(a) Stormy.
(b) Warm.
(c) Freezing cold.
(d) Snowy.

2. Who is Ruth?
(a) Ebbett's great-niece.
(b) Ebbett's niece.
(c) Ebbett's daughter.
(d) Ebbett's granddaughter.

3. When was the third lobster war?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1944.

4. Who is Angus responsible for looking after?
(a) His brother and cookie.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His senile mother.
(d) No one.

5. What first attracts Stan to Mary?
(a) Her intelligence.
(b) Her self-confidence.
(c) Her feminine giggle.
(d) Her pretty face and figure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Senator Simon Adams terrified of?

2. What does Stan not care about when it comes to Ruth?

3. To what type of establishment is Ruth sent unwillingly in Chapter 2?

4. What is Ruth's first word?

5. What do younger lobstermen tend to be?

(see the answer key)

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