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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May not buy Ruth?
(a) Books.
(b) Presents.
(c) Bras.
(d) School supplies.

2. Everyone liked Willard Jenson; he was _______________ young man.
(a) A kind and handsome.
(b) An intelligent.
(c) An odd but friendly.
(d) A good looking and charming.

3. May's main chore as a teenager was what?
(a) The cooking.
(b) The cleaning.
(c) The laundry.
(d) The education of her younger siblings.

4. Unfortunately Ruth lost out on the spelling bee. How did May treat her?
(a) Cruelly.
(b) Carefully.
(c) Thoughtfully.
(d) With disappointment.

5. The marriage was a happy one, until what?
(a) May became pregnant.
(b) World War II began.
(c) Willard lost his job.
(d) World War I began.

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

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

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

9. Matt is Ruth's younger brother. He always did everything ____________ she did.
(a) Slower and worse than.
(b) The same as.
(c) Faster and better than.
(d) Similar to how.

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

11. Ruth takes a job where?
(a) At the Trim 'N Tidy.
(b) At the Atlantis Super Wash Center.
(c) At the Lucky Laundry.
(d) At the Suds On 8th Avenue.

12. May, either intentionally or unintentionally, does not notice what about Ruth?
(a) Her changing body.
(b) Her changing confidence.
(c) Her changing intelligence.
(d) Her changing grades.

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

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

15. Together as what do May and Ruth work?
(a) Trimmers.
(b) Cleaning ladies.
(c) Finishers.
(d) Washers.

Short Answer Questions

1. On payday, Ruth hands her check over to May except for______ dollars which she puts away in a piggy bank.

2. Matt is a _____________ man by the time they reach high school.

3. What does Randall, Dee Dee's son, do to Ruth?

4. Ruth believes May is very _________ at this point in her life.

5. Ruth remembers mistaking __________ for onions one night.

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