View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Ruby learns of his mother's death a few years later, what does he do?
(a) He moves to Florida.
(b) He attempts suicide.
(c) He cries and locks himself up in his room.
(d) He becomes violent and damages several cars.

4. The first few months of marriage are ___________.
(a) Easy going.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Annoying.
(d) Exciting.

5. No one wants to hear about Ruth's trip, so she tells who?
(a) Justin.
(b) Randall.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Dee Dee.

Short Answer Questions

1. May thinks she is the expert on what?

2. Ruby continues to see his counselor who pushes him to do what?

3. Ruby's mother was an alcoholic and fell asleep with Ruby where?

4. How do Ruth and Ruby spend all their free time together?

5. May does not approve of Ruby from the start, claiming what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when May, Ruby, and Ruth go to pick apples?

2. How does Ruth feel about getting married?

3. What does May learn in April? How might this make her feel?

4. How does May feel about Ruth's engagement to Ruby? Why? How is May appeased?

5. What does Daisy suggest Ruth do? How do the others feel about this idea?

6. What job does Ruby finally get?

7. Why does May's attitude toward Ruth begin to change?

8. Describe the first few months after Justin's birth.

9. How did Ruby's father treat him?

10. What time does Ruth remember as one of the best times in her marriage?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 783 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample