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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Father - Mother.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the unreliables?
(a) Door to door salesmen.
(b) Locals on welfare.
(c) Hired help.
(d) Drifters.

2. What happens to Father when Alice is five?
(a) He drives off one night and never returns.
(b) He goes to buy milk and is hit by a train.
(c) He goes to meet a business partner and never returns.
(d) He is abducted.

3. How do the members of Mother's family react to the gifts she gives them at Christmas?
(a) They are angry.
(b) They are hurt.
(c) They make no comment.
(d) They are pleased.

4. Who beats broomsticks against the floor?
(a) Alice.
(b) The upstairs neighbor.
(c) Aunt Frances.
(d) Mother.

5. When does Mother go to the San in Part One?
(a) One winter after she finishes her painting project.
(b) On the day she dresses for a job interview.
(c) On the day that Alice's father dies.
(d) One winter when Alice is ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes Mother's life in the Mother-Arlette section of Part One?

2. What does Alice's family believe is in Florida?

3. What does Alice ask Arthur when he looks tired?

4. How is mother treated by her mother and other family members?

5. Who is Arlette?

(see the answer key)

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