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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. That Christmas Eve Ruth remembers as what?
(a) An okay day.
(b) One of the worst times in her marriage.
(c) One of the best times in her marriage.
(d) No different than any other day.

2. May does not approve of Ruby from the start, claiming what?
(a) He appears to be stupid and once vandalized some cars.
(b) He is a loser.
(c) He is too good for Ruth.
(d) He is not good enough for her daughter.

3. Where does Matt go to school in the fall?
(a) Yale.
(b) UCLA.
(c) MIT.
(d) Harvard.

4. Matt lives in a world that does not include who?
(a) May and Ruth.
(b) May.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Anyone but himself.

5. Ruby spends most of his time doing what in the basement?
(a) Painting.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Playing his guitar.
(d) Making birdhouses.

Short Answer Questions

1. One Saturday, later in that winter, Ruby brings home a coon's tail he found and he and Ruth use it how?

2. What does she help the team do?

3. Within a few months, what has happened to Ruth and Ruby?

4. Why is Ruth's idea dropped?

5. Honey Creek is a small farm town in the ______________ part of Illinois.

(see the answer key)

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