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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Arthur say that Mother asked him to do on the way to the San?
(a) Take her out of state.
(b) Drive faster.
(c) Take her home.
(d) Stop for a milkshake.

3. What is the San?
(a) A museum.
(b) An office complex.
(c) A mental asylum.
(d) A hospital.

4. Who beats broomsticks against the floor?
(a) Aunt Frances.
(b) The upstairs neighbor.
(c) Alice.
(d) Mother.

5. What does Alice say is in it for her if Nonna dies?
(a) Drama and experience.
(b) Nothing; she will have to live with Uncle Billy.
(c) She hopes to live in the Big House with Arthur.
(d) An inheritance.

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

7. Who is Miss O'Boyle?
(a) Mother's nurse.
(b) Nonna's nurse.
(c) Alice's social worker.
(d) The woman Nonna works for.

8. When does Mother go to the San in Part One?
(a) One winter when Alice is ten.
(b) On the day that Alice's father dies.
(c) On the day she dresses for a job interview.
(d) One winter after she finishes her painting project.

9. Who is Arthur?
(a) Mother's boss.
(b) An employee at the San.
(c) Alice's school friend.
(d) An employee of Aunt Frances.

10. 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 doesn't trust Miss O'Boyle.
(c) She watches her parrot.
(d) She doesn't trust Alice.

11. Where does Alice go with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy for an annual trip?
(a) Florida.
(b) Walt Disney Land.
(c) Tuscon.
(d) Lake Kerr.

12. What is Alice's mother's name?
(a) Brenda.
(b) Alice.
(c) Stella.
(d) Rosemarie.

13. Who unpacks Mother's things after she goes to the San in Part One?
(a) Alice and Aunt Frances.
(b) Just Aunt Frances.
(c) Aunt Frances and Arlette.
(d) Just Alice.

14. What does Aunt Frances tell Alice that there are rules about that she needs to learn?
(a) The Upper Class.
(b) Manners.
(c) Speaking to adults.
(d) Dressing and fashion.

15. Where does Mother live after she checks out of the San?
(a) With Arlette.
(b) In Florida with a woman from the San.
(c) At the Big House.
(d) Someplace warm with a man from the San.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Walter?

2. What do the unreliables say about Aunt Frances?

3. What does Uncle Billy do to some of Nonna's valuable pictures?

4. Who is upset about some of the things that Nonna often gives to Alice?

5. What best describes Mother's life in the Mother-Arlette section of Part One?

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