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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 say she misses about men in the Any House chapter?
(a) Their money.
(b) Their touching ways.
(c) Someone as messed up as me.
(d) Nothing.

2. How does Alice say she misses her mother?
(a) Like a fish misses water.
(b) Like a fish misses a bicycle.
(c) The way I think I will miss her when she dies.
(d) The way I miss a chair when I sit down.

3. What is Alice's main feeling, as expressed in Part One, about being orphaned?
(a) Anger that good parents are taken away while bad parents pollute the earth.
(b) Relief that she is no longer abused.
(c) Grief; she barely gets out of bed.
(d) Confused that Mother doesn't stay with her.

4. What does Mother say about Nonna's feelings for her children?
(a) That she only had room in her heart for Billy.
(b) That she was overprotective and worried constantly.
(c) That she ignored both of her children.
(d) That she resented both of her children.

5. What best describes Alice's life with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy?
(a) Loving.
(b) An adventure.
(c) Abusive.
(d) Stable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cares for Nonna's property?

2. How does Alice say that Arthur dies?

3. Who does Aunt Frances tell Alice is paying for her living expenses while Mother is in the San?

4. What is true about Nonna?

5. How does life after the death of Alice's father compare to life before his death?

(see the answer key)

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