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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. May then spends the entire night complaining about what?
(a) How Ruby always gets his way and she never has any say.
(b) How she does not feel well.
(c) How her apple pies did not come out right because Ruby insisted on the wrong apples.
(d) How she cannot eat the fruit.

2. How do Ruth and Ruby spend all their free time together?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Going out to nice dinners.
(c) Going to bars and drinking in dark, secluded places.
(d) Going on long walks.

3. Ruth becomes wrapped up in what?
(a) Spending time with Daisy.
(b) Her relationship with Randall.
(c) Dating Ruby.
(d) The wedding preparations.

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

5. Ruby and Ruth have a _____________ to celebrate their marriage.
(a) Short weekend.
(b) Long day.
(c) Long weekend.
(d) Long week.

6. What does Ruth decide to do for a few days?
(a) Travel around the state.
(b) Live on her own.
(c) Search for a new job.
(d) Stay at her Aunt Sid's.

7. When Ruby was revived, his mother promised to what?
(a) Never allow anyone to come near him again.
(b) Never drink again.
(c) Never allow harm to come to him again.
(d) Never touch him again.

8. Why does May insist they all go back to work?
(a) When the bills get tight.
(b) When she becomes tired of them at home.
(c) When Justin is sleeping through the night.
(d) When she tires of doing all the work.

9. Ruth soon learns that Ruby did what to one of May's chickens?
(a) Ate it.
(b) Poisoned it.
(c) Took care of it.
(d) Strangled it.

10. Ruth does what to May for the first time?
(a) Pushes her.
(b) Backs down from her.
(c) Ignores her.
(d) Stands up.

11. Within a few months, what has happened to Ruth and Ruby?
(a) They break up.
(b) They are engaged to be married.
(c) They have started dating.
(d) They are expecting a child.

12. That summer and fall, Ruth, May, Ruby, and Justin begin to go where?
(a) On vacations.
(b) To church.
(c) To the park.
(d) To the movies.

13. Ruth goes into labor when?
(a) Christmas Eve.
(b) Labor Day.
(c) Easter morning.
(d) New Year's Eve.

14. Artie gives Ruby a job where?
(a) At the mall.
(b) At the dry cleaners.
(c) At the grocery store.
(d) At the car dealership.

15. Eventually Ruby's mother, who suffered asthma, had to move where for her health, leaving Ruby on his own in Illinois?
(a) To Texas.
(b) To Florida.
(c) To California.
(d) To Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruth learns what about herself?

2. Why could Ruby not hold a job?

3. No one wants to hear about Ruth's trip, so she tells who?

4. Daisy tells Ruth that she should do what?

5. Ruth recalls this as what?

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