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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 Adele make Ann wash up before checking into the hotel?
(a) A Shell gas station.
(b) A YWCA.
(c) A roadside rest.
(d) The restroom at the Hamburger Hamlet.

2. Which of the following is something Ann's grandmother did NOT do for the aunts?
(a) Carried notes.
(b) Shared recipes.
(c) Told gossip.
(d) Styled their hair.

3. What job had Adele accepted?
(a) Masseuse.
(b) Caterer.
(c) Cocktail waitress.
(d) Special Ed teacher.

4. Adele tells her Wisconsin relatives that ____________________________.
(a) Ann got a scholarship.
(b) she is getting married again.
(c) the Christmas gifts she sent were lost in the mail.
(d) she is coming back home.

5. Jimmy gave Hal a job _______________________.
(a) selling life insurance.
(b) doing landscaping.
(c) fixing cars.
(d) selling water softeners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lillian's second child?

2. What hotel do Ann and her mother stay at in Scottsdale?

3. Who took care of Lillian after she had strokes?

4. Which man does Adele meet at a school bake sale?

5. What does Adele do to Ann many times during their trip?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Adele's disappointing life with her first husband, Hisham.

4. What is significant about the last time that Adele abandons Ann by the side of the road?

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

6. What does Hisham's disappointing life symbolize and how does Ann feel about him?

7. How does Lillian feel about her husband's job and how is that feeling transmitted to her daughters?

8. How does Ann try to act like the adult in the relationship with her mother?

9. Who is Lonnie Tishman and how does he take advantage of Adele and Ann?

10. What does California symbolize to Adele?

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