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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Big House - Tucson.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alice's main feeling, as expressed in Part One, about being orphaned?
(a) Anger that good parents are taken away while bad parents pollute the earth.
(b) Confused that Mother doesn't stay with her.
(c) Relief that she is no longer abused.
(d) Grief; she barely gets out of bed.

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

3. Who is Aunt Frances?
(a) Mother's sister-in-law.
(b) Father's 98-year-old aunt.
(c) The old lady who lives next door.
(d) An employee at the San.

4. What does Alice promise herself in Part One, when she is 12?
(a) That she will not be like Mother.
(b) That she will be a poet like Father.
(c) That she won't let Aunt Frances have Mother's jewelry.
(d) That she will live with Mother again.

5. What character trait best describes Walter?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Calculating.
(c) Gentle.
(d) Industrious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Alice's main concern about living with Mother?

3. What does Mother tell Alice they will get when they go to Florida?

4. Who wears a cracked and smelly leather jacket?

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

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