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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. Within a few months, what has happened to Ruth and Ruby?

2. Ruth and Ruby spend the first three months of the baby's life where?

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

4. Ruth soon learns that Ruby did what to one of May's chickens?

5. Tensions begin to grow again as what happens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ruby and Ruth celebrate their marriage?

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

3. What does Ruth dream about doing? Why?

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

5. How does Ruth feel about getting married?

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

7. How do Ruth and Ruby feel at the birthing class?

8. Describe Ruth's labor and delivery.

9. To what does Ruth return home?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruth and Miss Finch form a relationship.

Part 1) Describe this relationship. How is it formed? How does Ruth benefit from this friendship?

Part 2) How does this relationship come to an end? How dose this ending affect Ruth?

Part 3) What relationships are important in your own life? Why?

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 learns she is pregnant.

Part 1) How do May and Ruby react to this news? Why do they react this way?

Part 2) Is this pregnancy a good idea? Why or why not? How does this pregnancy and Justin's birth both help and hurt this family?

Part 3) Would this family have survived if Justin had not been born? Why or why not?

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