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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 Ruth do for most of the fall of 1976?
(a) She dreams of Owney.
(b) She lays low.
(c) She saves up money.
(d) She studies.

2. Why does Ruth go to the Addams' house in Chapter 8?
(a) To avoid going home.
(b) To try and sell some wares.
(c) To spend time with the children there.
(d) To help with Mrs. Addams' chores.

3. Where do Ruth and Owney walk along the edge of in Chapter 11?
(a) A farmer's field.
(b) The shore.
(c) A cliff.
(d) A deep quarry.

4. Who ends up in a coma after a fight in Wayside Hotel bar in Rockland?
(a) Stan.
(b) Don.
(c) Angus.
(d) Robin.

5. How does Conway make a living?
(a) He lives off his parents' fortunes.
(b) He sells timber to manufacturers up north.
(c) He lives on disability after being discharged from the Navy.
(d) He builds furniture for merchants on the mainland.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Stan visit the Pommeroys in Chapter 12?

2. Who is Rhonda's favorite child?

3. Who does Ruth live with in July, August and early September of 1976?

4. What does Ruth do with the $22,000?

5. What had Ruth hoped of her first sexual partner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth want for her future?

2. Why are Ruth and Owney left alone in Chapter 7? What does Owney show Ruth?

3. What is Ruth doing for a living in the Epilogue?

4. What happened to Stan's marriage to Mary during the lobster wars and immediately following the lobster war?

5. What does Owney want to be when he is older?

6. How has Ruth's personal life changed by the Epilogue?

7. Describe the second, third and fourth lobster wars.

8. What do Ruth and Toby say to one another on the topic of religion in Chapter 10?

9. How have Rhonda's sons lived since Ira's death?

10. What happens at the end of Chapter 11?

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