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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Billy ask Alice at the party the summer that she is 12?
(a) If she knows how her father died.
(b) How she feels about living with Mother again.
(c) If she is happy living with them.
(d) What she wants to be when she grows up.

2. Why does Alice ask Arthur to drive her to the San on a daily drive?
(a) To bring Mother home.
(b) To tell Mother she is leaving with the unreliables.
(c) To be close to Mother.
(d) To bring Mother homemade bread.

3. Where does Father die?
(a) In bed.
(b) In the ravine by the train tracks.
(c) In his car.
(d) In the river that flows under Main Street.

4. What does Arthur call Mother?
(a) Allie.
(b) Mrs. Bennet.
(c) Miss Alice.
(d) Sugar.

5. What is true about Alice's custody when she visits Mother at the San?
(a) Mother has given up custody of Alice.
(b) Aunt Frances is suing for custody of Alice.
(c) Mother has to go to a custody meeting the next day.
(d) Mother has lost custody of Alice.

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

7. What is NOT something that Alice does in Tuscon?
(a) Swims in the pool.
(b) Collects stones for jewelry.
(c) Browses in bookstores.
(d) Rides horses.

8. What does Arlette say that Nonna once did to Mother?
(a) Hit her with a car.
(b) Hit her with an oar.
(c) Forgot to put her in the car for a family trip.
(d) Dropped her on her head.

9. What does Mother do to ordinary straw bags, as described in Part One?
(a) Weaves them with fishwire and ribbon.
(b) Makes party favors for Alice's birthday party.
(c) Turns them into masks.
(d) Makes them into stories with dollhouse trinkets.

10. What is The Big House?
(a) An art museum.
(b) Miss O'Boyle's house.
(c) Nonna's house.
(d) A mental asylum.

11. Why does Aunt Frances say that Alice should call her rather than the nurses?
(a) So that Alice doesn't have to watch Nonna die.
(b) Because the nurses are unreliable.
(c) Because family should take care of family.
(d) So Uncle Billy can lock the house when Nonna dies.

12. What type of feeling does Walter bring to Alice's home?
(a) Hope.
(b) Security.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Fear.

13. What does Arthur say that Mother gave him?
(a) Money for his medications.
(b) A Magnavox stereo.
(c) An entire Brittania encyclopedia set.
(d) A drawing of his favorite lake.

14. What kind of music does Walter enjoy?
(a) Classical.
(b) Rap.
(c) Country.
(d) Show tunes.

15. What does Uncle Billy tell Alice her mother needs?
(a) A man.
(b) Psychological therapy.
(c) Medical treatment.
(d) Rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alice refer to as the Bobs and Ricks?

2. Who is Nonna?

3. Where do Alice and Arthur sometimes nap?

4. How do the members of Mother's family react to the gifts she gives them at Christmas?

5. After her mother is gone, what does Alice say is a reason that she should still be around?

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