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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Miss Finch is taken to a nursing home for what reason?
(a) She has become deaf.
(b) She has become frail.
(c) She has become ill.
(d) She has become senile.

3. One Saturday, later in that winter, Ruby brings home a coon's tail he found and he and Ruth use it how?
(a) In their cooking.
(b) To dust.
(c) To make a coonskin cap.
(d) In their sexual play.

4. Ruby's mother was an alcoholic and fell asleep with Ruby where?
(a) In a swing.
(b) In the car.
(c) In the hot sun.
(d) In the bathtub.

5. May thinks she is the expert on what?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Babies.
(d) Organizing.

Short Answer Questions

1. May takes Ruby and Ruth to pick what from a local orchard?

2. May and Ruth work while Ruby does what?

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

4. Why does May become upset when Ruby insists on a certain type of fruit?

5. Ruth becomes wrapped up in what?

(see the answer key)

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