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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ruth remembers the early letters Aunt Sid sent to her, filled with what stories?
(a) Growing up in Honey Creek.
(b) Going on vacations.
(c) Growing up during the Great Depression.
(d) Going to college in Chicago.

2. Ruth recalls how in school she began with what impression?
(a) She was dumb.
(b) She was smart.
(c) She was popular.
(d) She was special.

3. Sid tells Ruby that May would often have her boyfriend, Willard Jenson, over while she did what?
(a) Cooked.
(b) Worked in the garden.
(c) The laundry.
(d) Cleaned.

4. Ruth remembers one birthday when May did what for her?
(a) Took her to Showbiz Pizza.
(b) Baked her a special birthday cake.
(c) Made a special dinner for her.
(d) Bought her a birthday cake.

5. How did these feelings about herself affect her?
(a) They caused her to be successful.
(b) They caused her great embarrassment.
(c) They caused her to fail over and over again.
(d) They caused her to skip a grade.

6. After a while, Miss Finch becomes what to Ruth?
(a) A sister.
(b) An acquaintance.
(c) A mother.
(d) A friend.

7. May learned the tragic news on what day?
(a) Christmas Eve.
(b) Her birthday.
(c) The day her sister Marion got married.
(d) The day of their first anniversary.

8. Ruth remembers one Christmas when the Reverend at her church announced what?
(a) He would be retiring.
(b) Satan has taken control of many lives.
(c) The coming of Jesus.
(d) Jesus is born.

9. What does she help the team do?
(a) Go to state competition.
(b) Win a trophy.
(c) Go to regional competition.
(d) Become league champions.

10. Daisy wants to be what in Hollywood or New York?
(a) A model.
(b) A movie star.
(c) A waitress.
(d) A makeup artist.

11. Ruth recalls how her mother often told her her father's leaving was whose fault?
(a) Everyone's.
(b) No one's.
(c) Her.
(d) His.

12. How does Ruth feel about these books?
(a) She is interested in them.
(b) She is excited about them.
(c) She is annoyed by them.
(d) She fears them.

13. How does this affect Ruth?
(a) It gives her a new place to work.
(b) It cuts off her exposure to great literature.
(c) It give her more work to do.
(d) It forces her to look for a new job.

14. Miss Finch is taken to a nursing home for what reason?
(a) She has become frail.
(b) She has become senile.
(c) She has become ill.
(d) She has become deaf.

15. They would dance among what?
(a) Mops and brooms.
(b) The pots and pans.
(c) The piles of dirty clothes.
(d) Rose bushes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ruth feel when Jesus did not really make an appearance?

2. Ruth was left devastated by her own stupidity, despite advancing to the final _________.

3. Everyone liked Willard Jenson; he was _______________ young man.

4. One evening around the fourth of July, Daisy takes Ruth to the lake. They steal a boat and paddle out to the middle of the lake where they run into who?

5. When May discovered Sid had given Ruth a musical jewelry box, what did she do?

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