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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. What best describes Walter's appearance?
(a) Fat and overgrown with hair.
(b) Losing hair and scruffy.
(c) Soft curves and sharp eyes.
(d) Disappointed mouth and Einstein hair.

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

3. What does Alice say she feels like, living with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy?
(a) The daughter they never had.
(b) Unwanted.
(c) A visitor.
(d) An honored guest.

4. What does Arthur do for mother?
(a) Mows her lawn.
(b) Buys her lunch.
(c) Carries her groceries.
(d) Drives her to the San.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true about Alice's custody when she visits Mother at the San?

2. What does Mother wear on the last day Alice sees her in Part One (Mother-Arthur)?

3. Does Alice want to live with Mother again?

4. What things does Alice mention that Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy give her?

5. How does Mother relate to men after the death of Alice's father?

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