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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. Where does Howard get a job?
(a) The Children's Services Office.
(b) Wal-Mart.
(c) A lumberyard.
(d) The Motor Vehicle Registration Office.

2. Howard recalls his father's moral of ____________________.
(a) Take the High Road.
(b) Work Hard.
(c) Shame and Duty.
(d) Never Fight.

3. Howard wants to move as far away as Alaska or ___________________.
(a) California.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Washington.
(d) Germany.

4. Rafferty wants Alice to behave like which actress while in court?
(a) Audrey Hepburn.
(b) Glenn Close.
(c) Lauren Bacall.
(d) Meryl Streep.

5. Where does Howard begin to have his lunches?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) A diner.
(c) The fields.
(d) Theresa's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice do when she sees the girls in the jail?

2. How does Robbie show in court the horrible things that Alice supposedly did to him?

3. Who is the Child Protection Services worker on Robbie's case?

4. Who is the Assistant District Attorney in Alice's case?

5. To which Biblical person does Alice liken herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alice compare Howard to her father?

2. How does Alice feel about Rafferty's plans for her and for the trial?

3. How does Alice describe jail and why is it so difficult for her?

4. How does Alice refer to her map of the world while describing her jail experience?

5. How does Howard describe his state of confusion in Chapter 11?

6. What is Howard's perspective on the Goethe quote carved above the courthouse entrance?

7. What is the story about a dog and a tangled leash that recurs throughout the novel?

8. What is the purpose of the interviews conducted with Alice's daughters and the Child Welfare Office?

9. How is the Goodwin family's life in the apartment radically different from the farm where they belong?

10. How do the girls adapt to "hobo life" as Howard calls their apartment adventure?

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