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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ruth remembers mistaking __________ for onions one night.
(a) Daffodil bulbs.
(b) Garlic.
(c) Chives.
(d) Tulip bulbs.

2. How do Ruth and Ruby spend all their free time together?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Going out to nice dinners.
(c) Going to bars and drinking in dark, secluded places.
(d) Going on long walks.

3. Ruby and Ruth have a _____________ to celebrate their marriage.
(a) Short weekend.
(b) Long weekend.
(c) Long week.
(d) Long day.

4. Sid tells Ruby that May would often have her boyfriend, Willard Jenson, over while she did what?
(a) Worked in the garden.
(b) Cleaned.
(c) Cooked.
(d) The laundry.

5. Immediately after graduation, Matt goes where?
(a) To Europe.
(b) To college.
(c) To summer camp.
(d) To an academic camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this affect Ruth?

2. What could Ruth's teachers not help doing?

3. Willard was killed where?

4. Ruth relates the story of her mother's life as it was told to her by whom?

5. What happened one afternoon when Ruth's father accidentally spilled ice cream on her head?

(see the answer key)

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