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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. May then spends the entire night complaining about what?

3. What does Ruby do while Ruth labors?

4. Why is Ruth's idea dropped?

5. As May continues to harp on Ruth and Ruby for the way they are raising Justin, Ruth begins to imagine what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Ruby's father treat him?

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

4. What takes place between Ruth and Ruby at the beginning of this section?

5. How do Ruby and Ruth celebrate their marriage?

6. What does Ruth dream about doing? Why?

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

8. To what does Ruth return home?

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

10. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruth's father left when she was ten.

Part 1) Describe Ruth's family. Why might her father have left?

Part 2) How did her father's leaving affect Ruth, her brother, and her mother?

Part 3) What is a significant event that has taken place in your own life? How has it affected you?

Essay Topic 2

Ruth and Aunt Sid communicate through letters.

Part 1) How and why does this communication begin? How dose this communication affect Ruth?

Part 2) What is learned about Ruth through these letters? How important is this relationship to Ruth? Why?

Part 3) What other relationships are important to Ruth in this story? How are relationships a theme in this story?

Essay Topic 3

May becomes friends with Dee Dee.

Part 1) Describe their friendship. Why might these two be friends?

Part 2) What is learned about May through this relationship? What might be the cause for this different behavior?

Part 3) How do you act differently around different people? Why? What might this reveal about you?

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