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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ruth feel about these books?
(a) She is interested in them.
(b) She is excited about them.
(c) She fears them.
(d) She is annoyed by them.

2. They would dance among what?
(a) The pots and pans.
(b) The piles of dirty clothes.
(c) Rose bushes.
(d) Mops and brooms.

3. Ruth would often catch bees and leave them where?
(a) In the house.
(b) In Matt's bed.
(c) In Matt's car.
(d) In Matt's club house.

4. Ruth remembers one birthday when May did what for her?
(a) Bought her a birthday cake.
(b) Baked her a special birthday cake.
(c) Made a special dinner for her.
(d) Took her to Showbiz Pizza.

5. Mrs. Foote's husband dies from what?
(a) His heart disease.
(b) His liver disease.
(c) His cancer.
(d) His kidney disease.

6. How did Ruth feel when Jesus did not really make an appearance?
(a) She was worried.
(b) She was disappointed.
(c) She was angry.
(d) She was surprised.

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

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

9. Ruth remembers the early letters Aunt Sid sent to her, filled with what stories?
(a) Going to college in Chicago.
(b) Going on vacations.
(c) Growing up during the Great Depression.
(d) Growing up in Honey Creek.

10. Daisy wants to be what in Hollywood or New York?
(a) A movie star.
(b) A makeup artist.
(c) A waitress.
(d) A model.

11. Due to the amount of teasing Ruth receives at school, what does she do?
(a) She asks Aunt Sid for money to buy bras but lies and says the money is for a gift for May's birthday.
(b) She asks Aunt Sid for the money to buy bras.
(c) She asks Aunt Sid to take her bra shopping.
(d) She asks Aunt Sid for the money for school supplies.

12. Does Ruth intend to stay the first few times she goes to Miss Finch's?
(a) Yes.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Yes, but only at first.
(d) No.

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

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

15. How many happy memories does Ruth have of her family?
(a) Many.
(b) A few.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Matt often shone in school, actually skipping a grade. How did this affect Ruth?

2. Ruth recalls a time when May suggested Ruth go to what?

3. What could Ruth's teachers not help doing?

4. 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?

5. May often has to remind Ruth to do what?

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