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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is May appeased?

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

3. Ruth wants to take Justin and disappear where?

4. Artie gives Ruby a job where?

5. Ruth often misses work to deal with what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Ruby being babied?

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

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

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

5. How does Ruth feel about getting married?

6. To what does Ruth return home?

7. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 16?

8. What leads to tension? What exacerbates this tension?

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

10. Describe Ruth's labor and delivery.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruby's family dynamics greatly affected him.

Part 1) Describe Ruby's childhood. How do events and people in his childhood affect him as an adult?

Part 2) How does Ruby bring this baggage into his life with Ruth? How does May exacerbate these problems?

Part 3) Could Ruby have overcome this difficult childhood? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

May is murdered.

Part 1) Describe the events leading up to her murder. Is her murder foreshadowed? Explain.

Part 2) Describe her murder. How is Ruth affected by this? How might it change her permanently?

Part 3) Could her murder have been prevented? If so, how? If not, why not? How might the various have found peace with May's death?

Essay Topic 3

Ruth lives in Honey Creek, Illinois.

Part 1) Describe Honey Creek. How is Ruth a part of this community?

Part 2) How does this community influence Ruth? How does the early description of this town prepare the reader for the rest of the book?

Part 3) How does your own town influence you? What can be learned about you by learning about the town?

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