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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 before she goes to the San?
(a) Thin and bulimic.
(b) Paranoid.
(c) Depressed and suicidal.
(d) Creative and flamboyant.

2. How does Alice become an orphan?
(a) Her father dies and Mother is institutionalized.
(b) Her father leaves and Mother dies in a car crash.
(c) Father is institutionalized and Mother leaves for Florida.
(d) Both her parents are hit by a bus.

3. What is Alice allowed to do with Mother's possessions as they are unpacked?
(a) Select one to keep in her room.
(b) Decide who to donate them to.
(c) Decide where to keep them.
(d) Look, but not touch.

4. How is mother treated by her mother and other family members?
(a) She is used and abused.
(b) She is unappreciated.
(c) She is respected.
(d) She is handled with kid gloves.

5. Who unpacks Mother's things after she goes to the San in Part One?
(a) Just Alice.
(b) Alice and Aunt Frances.
(c) Just Aunt Frances.
(d) Aunt Frances and Arlette.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the members of Mother's family react to the gifts she gives them at Christmas?

2. What possession of Mother's does Aunt Frances berate Alice for touching?

3. Where does Alice go with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy for an annual trip?

4. How does Alice describe Aunt Frances' and Uncle Billy's house when she first goes to stay with them?

5. How does Alice refer to Arthur in Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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