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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. Finally the baby comes after how many hours of labor?

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

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

5. May learns in __________ that Matt was mentioned in Time magazine but did not tell her.

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Ruby being babied?

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

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

4. What led to Ruby having a counselor?

5. Describe the time between Ruth and Ruby's marriage and when tension begins.

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

7. How does Ruth feel about getting married?

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

9. What job does Ruby finally get?

10. What does Ruth dream about doing? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

May has lived a difficult life.

Part 1) Describe her life. How has she changed throughout her life? What led to these changes?

Part 2) How does May allow her past troubles to affect the present and the future? How does her past influence Ruth and Matt's lives?

Part 3) How might your own past influence your present and future? Is this good or bad? Why?

Essay Topic 2

May and Sid dislike Ruth's choice in men.

Part 1) Describe Ruby. Why do both May and Sid dislike him? Do they have valid reasons to dislike him? Why or why not?

Part 2) How is this used as foreshadowing? What other foreshadowing is found in this story?

Part 3) How do these feelings of Sid's toward Ruby affect her in the end? Why is nothing said to Ruth from Sid? Would it have changed anything? Why or why not?

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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