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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. What is one of Patricia's hobbies?
(a) Geology.
(b) Quilting.
(c) Genealogy.
(d) Stamp collecting.

2. What did Deek buy when he first came to Connie?
(a) Wine.
(b) Religious artifacts.
(c) Papal indulgences.
(d) Peppers.

3. How old was the man when he finally came to Connie?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Twenty-nine.

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 had contracted typhoid.
(d) She died.

5. How does Patricia feel about the views she believes Richard is teaching to the young people?
(a) Skeptical but willing to help.
(b) She is full of admiration.
(c) Enthusiastic.
(d) She does not approve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Billie Delia's mother?

2. Consolata is known to the people of Ruby by what name?

3. What two families display open animosity?

4. Who joins Pallas when she dances with the rest of the women at the Convent?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do many parents of the town instruct their children to stay away from Billie Delia, and is this reputation deserved?

2. What does Deek believe that the tea that Connie gave Soane causes, and why is this ironic?

3. What do Arnette and Soane have in common in terms of being parents?

4. What was Pallas Truelove's situation before she arrived at the Convent?

5. Why does Gigi receive fifty dollars for the box she finds under the bathtub?

6. How do the women react to Lone's warning that men are coming to harm them?

7. How do the town of Ruby and the Convent share joint responsibility for the field of marijuana?

8. Why does Mavis buy toys every Christmas?

9. What sort of dilemma does Billie face in her romantic life?

10. Why does Lone believe that the men of Ruby want to get rid of the women at the Convent?

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