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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. What does Alice want to draw?
(a) Mother, as she used to be.
(b) Her aunt and uncle, their hands, their glasses.
(c) Her future.
(d) The desert at sunset.

2. What is the last word that Mother speaks in the novel?
(a) Father.
(b) Alice.
(c) More.
(d) Mother.

3. What does Florida represent to Alice and mother?
(a) A solution to their financial woes.
(b) Healing and health.
(c) Utopia and an escape.
(d) A place to find Alice's father.

4. What does Alice tell Mr. Early about Father?
(a) That she looks just like him.
(b) That he wanted to be a poet.
(c) That he killed himself.
(d) That he was going to take her to Florida.

5. How does Alice describe Mr. Early when he taught high school?
(a) The unexpected man who no one recognizes once he speaks.
(b) An endless fountain of words, energy and hope.
(c) Bursting out of his ill fitting suit with prose and poetry.
(d) Dancing on his toes, whooping over the sounds the poet makes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Alice in Part Four: West 76th-Mother?

2. What does Alice say was Nonna's opinion of Father?

3. Why did Alice's father want to bring Alice and Mother to Florida?

4. What does Alice worry will harm Arthur?

5. Why is Mother's appearance changed when Alice goes to visit her after Nonna's funeral?

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