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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Ruby do this to the chicken?
(a) He was hungry.
(b) He was angry when May refused to let him take Justin into town in the car.
(c) He noticed that it was not looking very healthy.
(d) He wanted to test out his new drugs.

2. Ruby was a surprise baby, born prematurely in a time when his parents had believed what?
(a) They did not want anymore children.
(b) They did not want any children.
(c) They were done with childbearing.
(d) They could not have children.

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

4. May is forced to wait where, but Ruby goes with her to the labor room?
(a) In the father's waiting room.
(b) In her car.
(c) In the hall.
(d) In the waiting room.

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

6. A few weeks later, May and Ruby fight about what?
(a) The birdhouses.
(b) The guitars.
(c) The paintings.
(d) His drug use.

7. Tensions begin to grow again as what happens?
(a) Ruby begins using drugs.
(b) Justin ages.
(c) May grows bored with Justin.
(d) Ruby gets fired.

8. How does May feel about the baby?
(a) Angry.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Excited.
(d) Worried.

9. Ruby's mother was an alcoholic and fell asleep with Ruby where?
(a) In a swing.
(b) In the hot sun.
(c) In the bathtub.
(d) In the car.

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

11. One Saturday, later in that winter, Ruby brings home a coon's tail he found and he and Ruth use it how?
(a) In their cooking.
(b) In their sexual play.
(c) To make a coonskin cap.
(d) To dust.

12. Sid is there and congratulates Ruth. Ruth gets what impression?
(a) Sid is not happy with her choices in life.
(b) Sid is not feeling well.
(c) Sid misses her.
(d) Sid is happy for her.

13. They sleep in late the first morning and spend the day doing what?
(a) Talking.
(b) Laying out on the beach.
(c) Going hiking.
(d) Watching television and cleaning up the house.

14. Why is Ruth's idea dropped?
(a) Ruby decides he does not want to go.
(b) Ruby finds a new job.
(c) Ruby becomes very ill.
(d) Ruby gets hit by a car and messes up his leg.

15. That Christmas Eve Ruth remembers as what?
(a) No different than any other day.
(b) An okay day.
(c) One of the best times in her marriage.
(d) One of the worst times in her marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruby do while Ruth labors?

2. Ruth wants to take Justin and disappear where?

3. Ruth decides she and Ruby should do what?

4. In _______, Ruth and Ruby spend a week on the beach.

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

(see the answer keys)

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