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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had to bail the migrant workers out of jail in the middle of the night?
(a) Lonnie.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Jack.
(d) John Woodrow.

2. Who narrates Chapter 16?
(a) Jack.
(b) It is a third person omniscient narrator.
(c) Cecil.
(d) Ruby.

3. What did Ruby sew for June?
(a) A quilt.
(b) Curtains.
(c) Aprons.
(d) Skirts for a cruise.

4. What worried Ruby the most about dying?
(a) Where her soul would travel.
(b) If she would go to heaven.
(c) If she would go to hell.
(d) What Jack would do.

5. Other than Jack, who did Ruby attribute her happiness to?
(a) Tiny Fran.
(b) Burr.
(c) June.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the second day, what happens to the housekeeper?

2. Why didn't Jack and Ruby adopt any children?

3. When Ruby was a child, who really did all the work around the house?

4. Why did Ruby think that she and Jack could not have children?

5. When Jack first met Ruby, what was he hauling across the yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to John Woodrow the night before Ruby and Jack met?

2. Who informed June about menstruation, and why?

3. What did Burr do for his father when he died?

4. How did Ruby remember first meeting Jack?

5. Before leaving home, what had been Ruby's experience with cooking?

6. Why did Jack finally decide to hire a housekeeper?

7. What did Jack and Ruby think happens to the soul after death?

8. Why did Ruby cry when she found out that John Woodrow was dead?

9. Why did Jack think that Ruby's ghost had visited him in the night?

10. After Ruby's spirit does not visit, what does Jack do the next day?

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