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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ruth feels like an afterthought at graduation. Why?
(a) Everyone else in her class had parties planned for them, so Ruth's mom felt guilty at the last minute and threw her one.
(b) She has no plans for the future and is not happy to see high school ending.
(c) She was not sure if she would even graduate.
(d) Matt graduates the same day and all the attention is placed on him.

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

3. How does this affect Ruth?
(a) It give her more work to do.
(b) It forces her to look for a new job.
(c) It cuts off her exposure to great literature.
(d) It gives her a new place to work.

4. As they grew older and Matt's _____________ continued to shine, Ruth began to torture him.
(a) Personality.
(b) Ability to make friends.
(c) Lover for their mother.
(d) Intelligence.

5. When Elmer Grey began coming around, a widower with a farm of his own, May accepted his attentions and they were married when?
(a) Five years later.
(b) Two years later.
(c) A short time later.
(d) A year later.

6. How did these feelings about herself affect her?
(a) They caused her to fail over and over again.
(b) They caused her great embarrassment.
(c) They caused her to be successful.
(d) They caused her to skip a grade.

7. What does Ruth discover about herself?
(a) She is good at softball.
(b) She is good at tennis.
(c) She is good at basketball.
(d) She is good at bowling.

8. The town is so _________ that everyone knows everyone's business.
(a) Small.
(b) Irritating.
(c) Odd.
(d) Large.

9. 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) Sense and Sensibility.
(b) Mansfield Park.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Persuasion.

10. May wore the same _________ from her sister's wedding to her husband's memorial service.
(a) Dress.
(b) Hat.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Scarf.

11. Why did May always think Willard would come back to her?
(a) Because Willard said he would never leave her.
(b) Because she could not accept that he was dead.
(c) Because the police could not find his body.
(d) Because the military was never able to supply a body.

12. How does Ruby begin her story?
(a) By describing her son.
(b) By describing her family.
(c) By describing herself.
(d) By describing the town in which she grew up.

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

14. May is desperate to be what to Matt?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His confidante.

15. Matt often shone in school, actually skipping a grade. How did this affect Ruth?
(a) She was worried about him.
(b) He joined her class.
(c) She dreamed to be him.
(d) He skipped to a grade ahead of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately after graduation, Matt goes where?

2. Unfortunately Ruth lost out on the spelling bee. How did May treat her?

3. As children they often played house together, but Matt had to be who?

4. Ruth was left devastated by her own stupidity, despite advancing to the final _________.

5. For _____ years, May lived with her parents, doing the chores with the younger children.

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