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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. What does Arthur say that Mother asked him to do on the way to the San?
(a) Stop for a milkshake.
(b) Take her out of state.
(c) Take her home.
(d) Drive faster.

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

3. What does Alice compare her mother's trip to the San to?
(a) The rebirth of a phoenix.
(b) Spring, after a long winter.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Florida.

4. How does Mother relate to men after the death of Alice's father?
(a) She avoids all men.
(b) She is angry at all men.
(c) She seeks out troubled men.
(d) She seeks a father figure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Alice when her father dies?

2. Where do Alice and Arthur sometimes nap?

3. Who beats broomsticks against the floor?

4. What does Aunt Frances make Alice do?

5. What does Alice recall eating while her father talked of Florida, in Part One?

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