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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Daisy comes to Ruth and tells her what about Ruby?
(a) He really likes her.
(b) He is not interested in her.
(c) He is stupid.
(d) He is not a good person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruth goes to Randall and offers him words of encouragement as well as what?

2. May is forced to wait where, but Ruby goes with her to the labor room?

3. Ruth learns what about herself?

4. How does May feel about the baby?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Ruby and Ruth celebrate their marriage?

3. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 16?

4. Describe Ruth's labor and delivery.

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

6. What led to Ruby having a counselor?

7. What is happening during this time in Ruby's life?

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

9. Describe Aunt Sid and Ruth's vacation together.

10. What does Ruth decide she and Ruby should do? How does this turn out? Why?

(see the answer keys)

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