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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first few months of marriage are ___________.
(a) Easy going.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Annoying.

2. When does tension begin?
(a) When May makes fun of Ruby's birdhouses.
(b) When Ruby and Ruth move in with May.
(c) When May makes fun of Ruby's paintings.
(d) When Ruth teases Ruby about his guitar-playing abilities.

3. Daisy tells Ruth that she should do what?
(a) Move out.
(b) Find a new job.
(c) Stay at home.
(d) Still go on the vacation.

4. Ruth relates the story of her mother's life as it was told to her by whom?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her counselor, Sharry.
(c) Her brother, Matt.
(d) Her Aunt Sid.

5. One Saturday, later in that winter, Ruby brings home a coon's tail he found and he and Ruth use it how?
(a) In their sexual play.
(b) In their cooking.
(c) To dust.
(d) To make a coonskin cap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruth wants to take Justin and disappear where?

2. What do Ruby and May think of this idea?

3. Ruth returns to ___________ tensions at home.

4. Ruth names the baby what?

5. Ruby leaves the house and Ruth learns hours later that he did what?

(see the answer key)

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