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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Alice see a lot of family jewelry, precious silverware, and valuable artwork?
(a) Miss O'Boyle's house.
(b) Nonna's house.
(c) The art museum.
(d) Arlette's house.

2. What do the unreliables say about Aunt Frances?
(a) That she is glad to be rid of Alice.
(b) That she is like every white woman.
(c) That she is cruel.
(d) That she pays well.

3. What does Uncle Billy ask Alice at the party the summer that she is 12?
(a) If she is happy living with them.
(b) If she knows how her father died.
(c) What she wants to be when she grows up.
(d) How she feels about living with Mother again.

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

5. What does Mother do to ordinary straw bags, as described in Part One?
(a) Turns them into masks.
(b) Weaves them with fishwire and ribbon.
(c) Makes them into stories with dollhouse trinkets.
(d) Makes party favors for Alice's birthday party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT something that Alice does in Tuscon?

2. What does Aunt Frances make Alice do?

3. Who cares for Nonna's property?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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