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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. What does Ruth decide to do for a few days?

2. The first few months of marriage are ___________.

3. Ruby spends most of his time doing what in the basement?

4. Ruby comes to Ruth and apologizes, promising what?

5. On her wedding day, Ruth wears what?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Ruth return home?

2. How does Ruth feel about getting married?

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

4. What led to Ruby having a counselor?

5. Describe Ruth's labor and delivery.

6. What led to Ruby being babied?

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

8. Describe the time between Ruth and Ruby's marriage and when tension begins.

9. What job does Ruby finally get?

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 lives in Honey Creek, Illinois.

Part 1) Describe Honey Creek. How is Ruth a part of this community?

Part 2) How does this community influence Ruth? How does the early description of this town prepare the reader for the rest of the book?

Part 3) How does your own town influence you? What can be learned about you by learning about the town?

Essay Topic 2

May and Sid dislike Ruth's choice in men.

Part 1) Describe Ruby. Why do both May and Sid dislike him? Do they have valid reasons to dislike him? Why or why not?

Part 2) How is this used as foreshadowing? What other foreshadowing is found in this story?

Part 3) How do these feelings of Sid's toward Ruby affect her in the end? Why is nothing said to Ruth from Sid? Would it have changed anything? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

May becomes friends with Dee Dee.

Part 1) Describe their friendship. Why might these two be friends?

Part 2) What is learned about May through this relationship? What might be the cause for this different behavior?

Part 3) How do you act differently around different people? Why? What might this reveal about you?

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