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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ruby begin her story?
(a) By describing herself.
(b) By describing the town in which she grew up.
(c) By describing her family.
(d) By describing her son.

2. Still she often had trouble with what?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Some of the bigger words.
(c) Paying attention.
(d) Verb conjugation.

3. Ruth remembers her first meeting with who?
(a) Her Aunt Sid.
(b) Her neighbor Sid.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her cousin Sid.

4. Matt often shone in school, actually skipping a grade. How did this affect Ruth?
(a) She dreamed to be him.
(b) She was worried about him.
(c) He skipped to a grade ahead of her.
(d) He joined her class.

5. Ruth recalls a time when May suggested Ruth go to what?
(a) A movie.
(b) A concert.
(c) A party.
(d) A school dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a while, Miss Finch becomes what to Ruth?

2. Why is Ruth afraid to tell this story and May's reaction?

3. When they finally married, most people thought it was for what reason?

4. Ruth's father left when she was ______, just drove away and went to Texas to pick grapefruit and never returned.

5. The town is so _________ that everyone knows everyone's business.

(see the answer key)

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