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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Ruby give Nate?
(a) To always be cheerful when going through the cafeteria line.
(b) To work hard and go to college to get out of the house.
(c) To work out on weights more.
(d) To ignore Heather.

2. What does Cora promise Ruby when Cora leaves home?
(a) She won't let their mother hurt Ruby.
(b) She'll come back for her.
(c) She'll get their mother help.
(d) She'll keep in touch.

3. What does Ruby realize in the morning?
(a) That Jamie wasn't fooled about Ruby trying to leave.
(b) That Jaime is going to help her leave.
(c) That Cora wants Ruby out of the house.
(d) That Nate is her age.

4. What does Ruby point out to Harriett one day?
(a) That Reggie is a nice fellow.
(b) That Reggie works hard and is always cheerful.
(c) That Reggie likes Harriett.
(d) That she needs to take a day off now and again.

5. What does Ruby think when Jaime picks her up at school one afternoon?
(a) That he's learned about her visits to Marshall.
(b) That something is wrong with Cora.
(c) That something is wrong with her mother.
(d) That he is going to tell her she has to leave.

6. What does Ruby say when asked where her mother is?
(a) She does not know.
(b) She is in the looney bin.
(c) She runt away from home.
(d) In Las Vegas.

7. What is Commercial Courier?
(a) A company that delivers luggage lost by the airlines.
(b) A taxi company.
(c) An airport shuttle service.
(d) A limo company.

8. What is "Rest Assured"?
(a) A mortuary.
(b) A nursing home.
(c) A business Nate's father owns.
(d) A cemetary.

9. Why does Ruby decide to buy clothes?
(a) Her old clothes do not fit in with this high school.
(b) She loves buying clothes.
(c) She has lost weight and her clothes don't fit her well.
(d) Because Cora would be angry if Ruby does not.

10. What does Gervais say about Ruby?
(a) That her dress is ugly.
(b) That her shampoo stinks.
(c) That her hair is a cool color.
(d) That her eyes are a cool color.

11. Who is Harriett?
(a) A woman who works at the jewelry kiosk.
(b) A woman who works in the office at Perkins High.
(c) Ruby's therapist.
(d) The girl Nate wants to date.

12. Why is there a line stretched across the kitchen?
(a) To hang pots.
(b) To hang wet clothes.
(c) To hang photographs.
(d) To keep light from coming in the window.

13. What supposedly keeps Ruby from hitting Gervais?
(a) He might cry.
(b) His braces with a headgear.
(c) He would tell his mother on her.
(d) She thinks he is not really that bad.

14. What is Jamie Hunter showing Ruby?
(a) Her new puppy.
(b) Her new bedroom.
(c) A picture she painted.
(d) A rabbit.

15. What has Jaime bought for himself, Cora and Ruby?
(a) Red bows.
(b) Green hats.
(c) Blue shirts.
(d) Red shirts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cora point out about riding the city bus?

2. What message is Ruby to relay to Jaime?

3. What does Reggie need?

4. What does Nate say is different from being unfriendly?

5. How is Gervais characterized?

(see the answer keys)

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