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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mr. Early encourage Alice to do?
(a) Move in with Mother.
(b) Go to Florida alone.
(c) Become a musician.
(d) Become a poet.
2. What is true of Alice's boyfriend?
(a) He is younger and acne prone.
(b) He is older and unattractive.
(c) He is older and very handsome.
(d) He is younger and an athlete.
3. What does Mother call her home in Part Four?
(a) The Birdcage.
(b) The Cattery.
(c) The Land of the Wasted.
(d) The Nunnery.
4. What kind of poets does Alice say Father liked?
(a) Senseless men who spouted jibberish.
(b) Ivy league approved classics.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Hairy, bearish and mad.
5. What secret wish does Alice express after Nonna's funeral?
(a) To move to Florida.
(b) To play with the philharmonic.
(c) To be a poet.
(d) To have a child.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Alice go to visit Mother in Part Three: West 76th Street?
2. What does Alice say that Nonna felt about her children?
3. In the section labeled Father, what does Mother tell Alice to do with her remains when she dies?
4. What was Mr. Early doing when he died?
5. How does Alice describe Mr. Early when he taught high school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the life that Alice creates for herself in New York.
2. Is Alice happy at the end of the story?
3. Describe Mother's life when Alice visits her in California.
4. Is it right for Alice to ask her Mother to sign over access to Mother's trust fund?
5. How has Mother and Alice's relationship changed when they are living on different coasts?
6. Why is Nonna kinder to Alice than she is to Mother?
7. Describe Alice's Walter.
8. How is Arthur's death handled by Alice's family?
9. Explain why Alice finds herself in a lawyer's office when she is 30-years-old.
10. How does Mother remind Alice of Nonna during her time at the Birdcage?
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