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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. Ruth finally takes this opportunity to tell Aunt Sid what?

2. Ruth often misses work to deal with what?

3. They sleep in late the first morning and spend the day doing what?

4. May takes Ruby and Ruth to pick what from a local orchard?

5. May is forced to wait where, but Ruby goes with her to the labor room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ruth's labor and delivery.

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

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

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

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

6. How do Ruby and Ruth celebrate their marriage?

7. To what does Ruth return home?

8. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 16?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tensions build in the Grey-Dahl household.

Part 1) How do tensions build at various times in the story? Why do they build? How does this tension affect the various characters?

Part 2) Is this tension worse at the end of the story? Why or why not? Could this tension have been relieved at any point? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 3) How does tension help to move the plot along? How does it create action in this story?

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

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?

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