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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. How do the members of Mother's family react to the gifts she gives them at Christmas?
(a) They are pleased.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They are hurt.
(d) They make no comment.

2. What does one of Mother's friends ask Alice about?
(a) Father's sculptures.
(b) Where her husband is.
(c) If she inherited her father's gift for music.
(d) Her abusive father.

3. What happens to Father when Alice is five?
(a) He is abducted.
(b) He goes to meet a business partner and never returns.
(c) He drives off one night and never returns.
(d) He goes to buy milk and is hit by a train.

4. What does Alice do at the end of Part Two:The Big House- Arthur?
(a) She steals one of Nonna's paintings to sell.
(b) She get a job taking tickets at the art museum.
(c) She moves out of The Big House.
(d) She hitchhikes to Florida.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who unpacks Mother's things after she goes to the San in Part One?

2. Who replaces Arthur?

3. What does Arthur call Mother?

4. What is true about Nonna?

5. How does Alice describe Aunt Frances' and Uncle Billy's house when she first goes to stay with them?

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