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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Arthur - Mother.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Alice refer to as the Bobs and Ricks?
(a) People like Arthur.
(b) The boys she dates.
(c) The men Mother dated before Walter.
(d) Boring men, unlike Father.

2. Who is Walter?
(a) Alice's uncle.
(b) Mother's boyfriend.
(c) Alice's pet cat.
(d) A stray dog.

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

4. What does Alice argue with her aunt and uncle about after Arthur's death?
(a) Where Arthur is buried.
(b) Who should pay his expenses.
(c) Who gets his Magnavox.
(d) The reason he died.

5. Who is Nonna?
(a) Alice's grandmother.
(b) A nurse who lives with Alice's grandmother.
(c) A foster mother.
(d) Aunt Frances's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Miss O'Boyle?

2. Who put coffee in their child's milk bottle?

3. Who cares for Nonna's property?

4. What is Alice's main feeling, as expressed in Part One, about being orphaned?

5. How do Alice and her Walter each deal with their troubled relationship?

(see the answer key)

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