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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 could Ruth's teachers not help doing?
(a) Ignoring her.
(b) Comparing her to Matt.
(c) Comparing her to the other students.
(d) Teasing her.

2. Ruth recalls how her mother often told her her father's leaving was whose fault?
(a) His.
(b) Everyone's.
(c) No one's.
(d) Her.

3. Ruth believes May is very _________ at this point in her life.
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Worried.

4. May cooks dinner while Ruth does what?
(a) Cleans the house.
(b) Tends to the chickens and collects the eggs.
(c) The laundry.
(d) Watches television.

5. At other times, Ruth reads snippets of the letters she receives from whom?
(a) Dee Dee.
(b) Matt.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Aunt Sid.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did these feelings about herself affect her?

2. Ruth does not have many memories of her father, but she can recall one afternoon when she helped a _______ deliver its baby how her father patted her on the head and told her she was a good farmer.

3. _________ years later Ruth was born and Matthew the following year.

4. Ruth remembers mistaking __________ for onions one night.

5. One of May's brothers was deaf and moved to a deaf school when he was _________.

(see the answer key)

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