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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does May enjoy being a grandmother?

2. Aunt Sid meets Ruth at the bus station and takes her where?

3. May then spends the entire night complaining about what?

4. How does May feel about the baby?

5. What does Ruth pick Daisy to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What time does Ruth remember as one of the best times in her marriage?

2. What does Daisy suggest Ruth do? How do the others feel about this idea?

3. What happens at the beginning of Chapter 16?

4. What happens when May, Ruby, and Ruth go to pick apples?

5. What does May learn in April? How might this make her feel?

6. How do Ruth and Ruby feel at the birthing class?

7. Describe Aunt Sid and Ruth's vacation together.

8. What does Ruth decide she and Ruby should do? How does this turn out? Why?

9. What leads to tension? What exacerbates this tension?

10. What takes place between Ruth and Ruby at the beginning of this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruth vacations with Sid.

Part 1) What was Ruth's original vacation plan? Why does this first plan fall through? What does this reveal about Ruby?

Part 2) How important is this vacation to Ruth? Why do May and Ruby react the way they do regarding Ruth's vacation? How do their reactions affect Ruth?

Part 3) Describe a vacation on which you have gone. Why was it important to you? How were you changed by it?

Essay Topic 2

Ruth's father left when she was ten.

Part 1) Describe Ruth's family. Why might her father have left?

Part 2) How did her father's leaving affect Ruth, her brother, and her mother?

Part 3) What is a significant event that has taken place in your own life? How has it affected you?

Essay Topic 3

May is murdered.

Part 1) Describe the events leading up to her murder. Is her murder foreshadowed? Explain.

Part 2) Describe her murder. How is Ruth affected by this? How might it change her permanently?

Part 3) Could her murder have been prevented? If so, how? If not, why not? How might the various have found peace with May's death?

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