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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. One Saturday, later in that winter, Ruby brings home a coon's tail he found and he and Ruth use it how?

2. Ruby comes to Ruth and apologizes, promising what?

3. Why is Ruth's idea dropped?

4. Ruby spends most of his time doing what in the basement?

5. Ruth recalls this as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ruth's labor and delivery.

2. How did Ruby's father treat him?

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

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

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

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

7. To what does Ruth return home?

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

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

10. How do Ruby and Ruth celebrate their marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruth's opinion of Sid is changed.

Part 1) Describe Sid's relationship and opinion of Sid up to the point when she finds the letter. How does this letter alter her opinion of Sid?

Part 2) Should Ruth be this upset about the letter? Why or why not? Should Sid have confronted Ruth regarding her opinion about Ruby? Why or why not?

Part 3) If your friend was in a relationship you did not care for, would you say something? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Ruth vacations with Sid.

Part 1) What was Ruth's original vacation plan? Why does this first plan fall through? What does this reveal about Ruby?

Part 2) How important is this vacation to Ruth? Why do May and Ruby react the way they do regarding Ruth's vacation? How do their reactions affect Ruth?

Part 3) Describe a vacation on which you have gone. Why was it important to you? How were you changed by it?

Essay Topic 3

The household falls apart.

Part 1) Describe this destruction. What is the cause of this destruction?

Part 2) How do Ruth, Ruby, and May play a role in it's destruction?

Part 3) How different might their relationship have been if they had not lived together? Could it have been better? Why or why not? Could May's death have been prevented? Why or why not?

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