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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. May often has to remind Ruth to do what?
(a) Finish her work.
(b) Stay organized.
(c) Be polite to the customers.
(d) Listen to her boss.

2. When Elmer Grey began coming around, a widower with a farm of his own, May accepted his attentions and they were married when?
(a) A short time later.
(b) A year later.
(c) Five years later.
(d) Two years later.

3. Ruth's father left when she was ______, just drove away and went to Texas to pick grapefruit and never returned.
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

4. What could Ruth's teachers not help doing?
(a) Ignoring her.
(b) Comparing her to the other students.
(c) Comparing her to Matt.
(d) Teasing her.

5. Ruth also recalls when she got into the spelling bee and May allowed her to wear what?
(a) A pair of earrings.
(b) An heirloom pin.
(c) Her hair in curls.
(d) Her best dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruth relates the story of her mother's life as it was told to her by whom?

2. Ruth remembers one Christmas when the Reverend at her church announced what?

3. Ruth believes May is very _________ at this point in her life.

4. May's main chore as a teenager was what?

5. Ruth recalls how her mother often told her her father's leaving was whose fault?

(see the answer key)

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