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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 is Ann's grandmother's name?
(a) Dolores.
(b) Lillian.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Mildred.

2. Carol reminisces about a vacation spent with Adele at _____________________.
(a) The Jersey Shore.
(b) The Smoky Mountains.
(c) Mackinac Island.
(d) Disney World.

3. What is Ann's last name?
(a) Michaels.
(b) August.
(c) Gibbons.
(d) Peterson.

4. When did Carol's older son start using drugs?
(a) In college.
(b) In high school.
(c) In grade school.
(d) After college.

5. What did Ann's grandmother do when she visited her aunts?
(a) Fixed dinner.
(b) Cleaned house.
(c) Made pie crust.
(d) Drank tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the boy who walks Ann home after school?

2. Who is Carol's younger son?

3. What color dress did Lillian get married in?

4. What happens on Adele's first day at her new job?

5. What branch of the service did Milton join?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Adele jealous of Ann's burgeoning sexuality?

2. How do Lillian and Art start out their married life?

3. How do Hal's problems help Carol to become closer to her own mother?

4. How does the author show that Adele is self-centered and selfish?

5. Explain how Carol and Adele are dissatisfied with their lives and the men in their worlds.

6. How does Adele pay for the trip to California?

7. How did Lillian's mother show inappropriate behavior toward Lillian's brother, Milton?

8. How does Jimmy help Hal turn his life around?

9. How is Hal a disappointment to Carol and Jimmy?

10. Who is Lillian and what is her relationship with her aunts?

(see the answer keys)

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