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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does May feel about the baby?
(a) Excited.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Worried.

2. Does May enjoy being a grandmother?
(a) Yes.
(b) Rarely.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes.

3. Tensions begin to grow again as what happens?
(a) May grows bored with Justin.
(b) Ruby begins using drugs.
(c) Ruby gets fired.
(d) Justin ages.

4. That Christmas Eve Ruth remembers as what?
(a) No different than any other day.
(b) One of the worst times in her marriage.
(c) An okay day.
(d) One of the best times in her marriage.

5. They sleep in late the first morning and spend the day doing what?
(a) Talking.
(b) Watching television and cleaning up the house.
(c) Laying out on the beach.
(d) Going hiking.

6. Ruth and Ruby spend the first three months of the baby's life where?
(a) At home.
(b) In their bedroom.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) At the hospital.

7. Within a few months, what has happened to Ruth and Ruby?
(a) They have started dating.
(b) They break up.
(c) They are expecting a child.
(d) They are engaged to be married.

8. Ruth names the baby what?
(a) Justin.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) John.
(d) James.

9. Sid is there and congratulates Ruth. Ruth gets what impression?
(a) Sid misses her.
(b) Sid is not feeling well.
(c) Sid is happy for her.
(d) Sid is not happy with her choices in life.

10. What does Ruth decide to do for a few days?
(a) Travel around the state.
(b) Stay at her Aunt Sid's.
(c) Live on her own.
(d) Search for a new job.

11. May does not approve of Ruby from the start, claiming what?
(a) He is too good for Ruth.
(b) He is not good enough for her daughter.
(c) He appears to be stupid and once vandalized some cars.
(d) He is a loser.

12. Ruth becomes wrapped up in what?
(a) Spending time with Daisy.
(b) Dating Ruby.
(c) Her relationship with Randall.
(d) The wedding preparations.

13. May learns in __________ that Matt was mentioned in Time magazine but did not tell her.
(a) March.
(b) November.
(c) July.
(d) April.

14. What does May think of Ruth's idea?
(a) She thinks nothing of it.
(b) She believes it is a horrible idea.
(c) She is unhappy with it.
(d) She is happy with it.

15. Ruby's mother was an alcoholic and fell asleep with Ruby where?
(a) In a swing.
(b) In the bathtub.
(c) In the hot sun.
(d) In the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. No one wants to hear about Ruth's trip, so she tells who?

2. Ruth often misses work to deal with what?

3. This is the only time in which the four of them could do what?

4. Why does May insist they all go back to work?

5. As May continues to harp on Ruth and Ruby for the way they are raising Justin, Ruth begins to imagine what?

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