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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arnette bring to the Convent after her wedding?
(a) Wedding cake.
(b) A gun.
(c) Her ruined dress.
(d) Leftover flowers.

2. Where does Connie spend an increasing amount of time?
(a) The basement.
(b) Deek Morgan's house.
(c) The confessional.
(d) The community oven.

3. What in the basement attracts Connie?
(a) Wine.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Darkness.

4. What had happened to Lone's birth mother before the group headed to Ruby arrived?
(a) She had won the state fair quilting contest.
(b) She had been elected to county office.
(c) She died.
(d) She had contracted typhoid.

5. What was the occupation of the person that raised Lone DuPres?
(a) Midwife.
(b) Baker.
(c) Textile worker.
(d) Undertaker.

6. Who joins Pallas when she dances with the rest of the women at the Convent?
(a) Her former art teacher.
(b) Her father.
(c) K.D.
(d) Her healthy baby son.

7. What is one deed the Convent is blamed for that was actually committed by K.D.?
(a) The planting of marijuana.
(b) The report to the governor.
(c) The theft of the mine payroll.
(d) The contamination of the well.

8. What does the box Gigi finds under the bathtub contain?
(a) The key to the sub-basement.
(b) A pistol.
(c) Assorted bolts and screws.
(d) Worthless old banknotes.

9. What does Lone do after hearing the men plotting?
(a) She directly confronts the men.
(b) She decides to tell no one.
(c) She drives to the Convent to warn the women.
(d) She calls the newspaper city desk editor.

10. How many children has Lone DuPres delivered since the last of the Fleetwood children?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Fifteen.

11. What type of views does Patricia believe that Richard is teaching to the young people?
(a) Militant.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Pacifist.
(d) Islamic.

12. What did the nuns operate at the convent before loosing funding?
(a) A school for girls.
(b) A recycling plant.
(c) A soup kitchen.
(d) A homeless shelter.

13. How many founding families arrived in Ruby?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) NIne.
(d) Two.

14. What is one possible reason that Menus drinks too much?
(a) Connie gives him free wine.
(b) He feels bad for abandoning the woman.
(c) It is the only way he can control the pain of his injured leg.
(d) He enjoys upsetting everyone.

15. Who tells Patricia of what K.D. and Arnette are expecting?
(a) Lone DuPres.
(b) Connie.
(c) Billie.
(d) Richard Misner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are K.D. and Arnette expecting?

2. Why was Menus forced to abandon the woman he brought from Virginia?

3. Why is Richard concerned about Billie?

4. How does Lone get to the Convent to warn the women?

5. Why did Pallas flee from her boyfriend and her mother?

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