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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened one afternoon when Ruth's father accidentally spilled ice cream on her head?
(a) Everyone laughed together at that.
(b) Everyone became angry with him.
(c) Everyone laughed at her.
(d) Everyone ignored her.

2. As a child, May would often tell her sisters she was going to do what?
(a) Get married young.
(b) Run away.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Kill herself.

3. Mrs. Foote's husband dies from what?
(a) His liver disease.
(b) His cancer.
(c) His heart disease.
(d) His kidney disease.

4. How does this affect Ruth?
(a) It cuts off her exposure to great literature.
(b) It forces her to look for a new job.
(c) It gives her a new place to work.
(d) It give her more work to do.

5. Artie, from the dry cleaners, talks Ruth into joining what?
(a) The Suds On 8th Avenue softball team.
(b) The Lucky Laundry tennis team.
(c) The Trim 'N Tidy bowling team.
(d) The Atlantis Super Wash Center basketball team.

Short Answer Questions

1. On payday, Ruth hands her check over to May except for______ dollars which she puts away in a piggy bank.

2. Where does Matt go to school in the fall?

3. For _____ years, May lived with her parents, doing the chores with the younger children.

4. Unfortunately Ruth lost out on the spelling bee. How did May treat her?

5. In __________ grade, Ruth was instructed to write a letter to someone, so she chose Aunt Sid.

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