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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What could Ruth's teachers not help doing?
(a) Comparing her to the other students.
(b) Comparing her to Matt.
(c) Teasing her.
(d) Ignoring her.

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

5. Why is Ruth afraid to tell this story and May's reaction?
(a) She is embarrassed and does not want anyone to know what she had done.
(b) She fears Aunt Sid will be mad at her for this mistake.
(c) She fears Aunt Sid will think her too stupid to be her pen pal.
(d) She fears Aunt Sid will laugh at her.

6. May often has to remind Ruth to do what?
(a) Be polite to the customers.
(b) Listen to her boss.
(c) Stay organized.
(d) Finish her work.

7. Artie, from the dry cleaners, talks Ruth into joining what?
(a) The Suds On 8th Avenue softball team.
(b) The Lucky Laundry tennis team.
(c) The Trim 'N Tidy bowling team.
(d) The Atlantis Super Wash Center basketball team.

8. One evening around the fourth of July, Daisy takes Ruth to the lake. They steal a boat and paddle out to the middle of the lake where they run into who?
(a) Randall.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Dee Dee.
(d) Matt.

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

10. What does Randall, Dee Dee's son, do to Ruth?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He teases her.
(c) He bullies her.
(d) He makes a pass at her.

11. At other times, Ruth reads snippets of the letters she receives from whom?
(a) Dee Dee.
(b) Daisy.
(c) Matt.
(d) Aunt Sid.

12. Ruth's father left when she was ______, just drove away and went to Texas to pick grapefruit and never returned.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

13. Ruth remembers one Christmas when the Reverend at her church announced what?
(a) He would be retiring.
(b) Jesus is born.
(c) The coming of Jesus.
(d) Satan has taken control of many lives.

14. _________ years later Ruth was born and Matthew the following year.
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

15. Did Ruth have friends?
(a) Yes, some.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, many.
(d) Yes, one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immediately after graduation, Matt goes where?

2. Miss Finch is taken to a nursing home for what reason?

3. They would dance among what?

4. In __________ grade, Ruth was instructed to write a letter to someone, so she chose Aunt Sid.

5. May learned the tragic news on what day?

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