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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Big House - Mother.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mother do that embarrasses Alice when she visits her at the San?
(a) Introduces Alice as "my sister."
(b) Cries in public.
(c) Sits on a piano and sings.
(d) Laughs like a crazy woman.

3. What does Uncle Billy do to some of Nonna's valuable pictures?
(a) He rehangs them in her bedroom.
(b) He has them framed for her.
(c) He sells them at a pawn shop and gives her the money.
(d) He writes his name on the back.

4. Does Alice want to live with Mother again?
(a) She dreads having to live with her again.
(b) She is angry at having to make a choice.
(c) She deparately wants to live with her again.
(d) She is conflicted, as her life is now stable.

5. Why does Miss O'Boyle say that Nonna 's eyes are almost always open, wet and watching?
(a) She watches her parrot.
(b) She doesn't want to miss anything.
(c) She doesn't trust Alice.
(d) She doesn't trust Miss O'Boyle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wears a cracked and smelly leather jacket?

3. What does Aunt Frances tell Alice that there are rules about that she needs to learn?

4. Who does Mother live with when Alice goes to visit her after Nonna's funeral?

5. Who is Arlette?

(see the answer key)

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