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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Seneca and Sweetie walk together?
(a) The Convent.
(b) To the well.
(c) To the community oven.
(d) In the garden.

2. Where does Mavis initially plan to go after leaving Newark?
(a) California.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) FBI Headquarters.

3. Why have the men come to the Convent?
(a) Their pastor has died and they need religious instruction.
(b) They hope to sell the women surplus cotton.
(c) They want to learn the skill of canning food.
(d) They blame the women at the convent for a series of catastrophes.

4. Where had most of the residents of Ruby resided prior to starting the town of Ruby?
(a) Haven.
(b) Silver City.
(c) Fayetteville.
(d) Jacksonville.

5. Who takes Mavis to get gasoline for her car?
(a) Frank.
(b) Soane.
(c) Toni.
(d) Connie.

6. What unwashed, unprepared objects in the pantry at the Convent lead the men to believe that the women at the Convent are lazier than the women in Ruby?
(a) Sheep shears.
(b) Canning jars.
(c) China figurines.
(d) Rice bowls.

7. What does the young man who walks into Anna's store seek?
(a) Medicine for a baby and directions.
(b) The justice of the peace.
(c) A job.
(d) Bargain liquor.

8. What story does Mavis tell the reporter?
(a) Her part in the civil rights struggle in Oklahoma.
(b) The story of the death of her twin children.
(c) The history of the Convent.
(d) How she came to own a classic Cadillac.

9. How did Soane and Deek's sons die?
(a) They were lynched.
(b) They died in an automobile crash.
(c) They were killed in the war.
(d) They drowned.

10. Who did Connie have an affair with?
(a) Frank Albright.
(b) Steward Morgan.
(c) K.D. Morgan.
(d) Deek Morgan.

11. Who gives Gigi a ride away from Ruby?
(a) Frank.
(b) Roger Best.
(c) Mavis.
(d) Toni Morrison.

12. What is the purpose of the meeting that K.D. knows will be held later in the day?
(a) K.D. will meet with the cattle rustlers to plan a nighttime raid.
(b) K.D. plans to ask his family for permission to enlist in the Army.
(c) K.D.'s uncles will try to find a solution to K.D. having impregnated Arnette.
(d) K.D. plans to meet with the Sheriff.

13. The town of Ruby is named after whom?
(a) The wife of a Comanche Indian chief.
(b) A famous dancer from Norman, Oklahoma.
(c) Ruby Tuesday.
(d) Ruby Best.

14. At the Convent, what does Roger load into his vehicle?
(a) A body.
(b) Seventeen bags of rice.
(c) Sacks of grain.
(d) Vegetables from Connie's garden.

15. What did the families who settled Ruby, Oklahoma originally consider for a town name?
(a) Morganville.
(b) Diamond Flats.
(c) Kingman.
(d) New Haven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hotels are located in Ruby?

2. What is K.D. doing at the opening of the chapter?

3. What does Mavis come to believe about her husband's and children's intentions toward her?

4. What two items does Mavis take on her way out of the house late at night?

5. What color was the Cadillac originally?

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