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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ruby react to Gervais' comment on the second day?
(a) She tells him it looks better on her than it would on him.
(b) She pretends not to hear him.
(c) She blushes, aware of Nate looking at her.
(d) She stares at him in silence.

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

3. Why does Ruby call Jaime when she gets home?
(a) Roscoe is acting frantic.
(b) The cat is sick.
(c) She needs to know how to turn on the oven.
(d) She cannot find her house key.

4. Who is Olivia?
(a) A black girl sitting next to Ruby in class.
(b) The only student Ruby has known before in her other high school.
(c) Cora's best friend.
(d) The biology teacher.

5. Why does Cora give Ruby two hundred dollars?
(a) To find an old clunker car.
(b) To go pay her tuition for a college course Ruby wants to take.
(c) So Ruby has some spending money.
(d) For clothes.

6. Who does Nate seem to notice especially at school?
(a) Heather.
(b) His science teacher.
(c) The trophies in the hall case.
(d) The young woman who serves food in the cafeteria line.

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

8. What has Jaime bought for Roscoe?
(a) A Santa collar.
(b) A red bow.
(c) A huge ham bone.
(d) A new, softer bed.

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

10. What happened to Ruby's mother?
(a) She had a stroke which changes her personality.
(b) She became an alcoholic.
(c) She lost interest in life.
(d) She because a drug addict.

11. Who are the Honeycutts?
(a) Ruby's mom's landlords.
(b) The Hunter's neighbors.
(c) A couple who have just moved to Cora's city.
(d) A couple who go to Cora's church.

12. What did Cora used to do when she still lived with Ruby and their mother?
(a) Make their mother go to bed and sleep off a drunk.
(b) Protect Ruby.
(c) Hit their mother.
(d) Make Ruby keep up with her homework.

13. What does Cora make Ruby do when she comes downstairs?
(a) Saw grace.
(b) Eat some breakfast.
(c) Change into a looser pair of pants.
(d) Change into a different sweater.

14. What does Mr. Thackray urge Jaime to do?
(a) Allow himself to be recognized for his donations to the school.
(b) Keep an eye on Ruby.
(c) Run for the school board.
(d) Ask Cora to run for president of the PTA.

15. What does Ruby ask of Peyton?
(a) To contact Mickie for Ruby.
(b) To go by Ruby's old house and get some stuff.
(c) To come and pick her up.
(d) To send her some money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cora promise Ruby when Cora leaves home?

2. To what sound does Ruby awaken on Saturday morning?

3. What is Commercial Courier?

4. What has Ruby given up on about two weeks after she's been at Perkins Day?

5. What does Ruby say about Cora's wedding?

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