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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 does Senator Simon Adams deliver in Chapter 1?
(a) Healing chicken stock.
(b) A ticket to California.
(c) Some old clothes and rags.
(d) A pie baked by his mother.

2. Who is Mary?
(a) Ruth's sister.
(b) Ruth's cousin.
(c) Ruth's mother.
(d) Ruth's aunt.

3. Who is the author of "Stern Men"?
(a) Stephenie Meyer.
(b) Elizabeth Gilbert.
(c) Suzanne Collins.
(d) Stieg Larsson.

4. Where does Mary live?
(a) Laconia, New Hampshire.
(b) Rochester, New Hampshire.
(c) Concord, New Hampshire.
(d) Brookfield, New Hampshire.

5. What does Ebbett wait for in the prologue?
(a) Peace.
(b) War.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ruth stay with when her parents go away for a short time in Chapter 1?

2. Who does Ruth search for after leaving Ellis House?

3. Who is described as being an aggressive lobsterman?

4. Who's quarries can be found on Courne Haven?

5. Who is Senator Simon Adams' twin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth think of Vera?

2. Why does Ruth go in to see Lanford alone in Chapter 3? How does he greet her?

3. What does Ruth do after graduation?

4. Who is Jane? What does the reader learn of Jane's past in Chapter 4?

5. Describe the funeral in Chapter 1.

6. Who is Ricky? What does the reader learn about Ricky in Chapter 6?

7. What nationalities have married one another to create a distinctive population on these islands?

8. Why does Ruth flee to Rhonda's in Chapter 5? What is Rhonda doing when Ruth arrives?

9. Who is Cal Cooley?

10. Who are the members of Ebbett's family?

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