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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Any House - Florida.

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) Her father leaves and Mother dies in a car crash.
(d) Father is institutionalized and Mother leaves for Florida.

2. What does Arlette suggest is the reason that Mother is mentally unstable?
(a) That Nonna dropped her on her head.
(b) That she was neglected as a child.
(c) Heredity.
(d) That Nonna hit her with an oar.

3. What character trait best describes Walter?
(a) Industrious.
(b) Gentle.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Calculating.

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

5. What is true about Father's death?
(a) The train driver was drinking.
(b) It's a suspected murder.
(c) It's a suspected suicide.
(d) Father was drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice promise herself in Part One, when she is 12?

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

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

4. Who is Mr. Early?

5. What does Alice's family believe is in Florida?

(see the answer key)

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