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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Mother's life in the Mother-Arlette section of Part One?
(a) Spontaneous.
(b) Disorderly.
(c) Anally organized.
(d) Rewarding.

2. How does Alice scare Arlette when she visits her?
(a) By falling out of a tree.
(b) By teasing an angry tomcat.
(c) By almost drowning in an innertube.
(d) By choking on her dinner.

3. What is Alice's mother's name?
(a) Rosemarie.
(b) Stella.
(c) Brenda.
(d) Alice.

4. Who wears a cracked and smelly leather jacket?
(a) Walter.
(b) Father.
(c) Alice.
(d) Arthur.

5. What possession of Mother's does Aunt Frances berate Alice for touching?
(a) Thumb-cut crystal glasses.
(b) A nude drawing.
(c) The opal earring that Aunt Frances wants to wear.
(d) Her parent's gold framed wedding photo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arthur say that Mother asked him to do on the way to the San?

2. What does Alice say is one of her mother's unusual behaviors?

3. Who unpacks Mother's things after she goes to the San in Part One?

4. What does Arthur call Mother?

5. What does Uncle Billy ask Alice at the party the summer that she is 12?

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