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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ruth realizes now that people in town must have felt how for her and her family?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Sorry.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Worried.

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

3. Ruth soon learns that Ruby did what to one of May's chickens?
(a) Strangled it.
(b) Ate it.
(c) Poisoned it.
(d) Took care of it.

4. Some of the books are non-fiction, but many of them are classic literature, such as Charles Dickens' Bleak House and Jane Austen's _______________.
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Sense and Sensibility.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Persuasion.

5. What does May think of Ruth's idea?
(a) She believes it is a horrible idea.
(b) She is unhappy with it.
(c) She is happy with it.
(d) She thinks nothing of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artie, from the dry cleaners, talks Ruth into joining what?

2. What does Ruth pick Daisy to be?

3. What does Artie proudly display in the store?

4. Ruby was a surprise baby, born prematurely in a time when his parents had believed what?

5. It was a rare bit of praise for a child overshadowed by whom?

(see the answer key)

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