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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice say she feels like, living with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy?
(a) The daughter they never had.
(b) An honored guest.
(c) Unwanted.
(d) A visitor.

2. Where do Alice and Arthur sometimes nap?
(a) By the pool.
(b) At the park.
(c) In the car.
(d) On the floor in front of the TV.

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

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

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

6. What best describes Nonna's social life?
(a) She is a recluse.
(b) Many visitors come to call.
(c) She devotes her time to her church.
(d) Her home is always overrun with children.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

12. How does Mother use overripe fruit, as described in Part One?
(a) To bake a banana bread.
(b) To bake a fruit cake.
(c) To make a wreath for Christmas.
(d) To decorate a mantle for Christmas.

13. What does Alice say is one of her mother's unusual behaviors?
(a) Knocking on a doorway before entering a room.
(b) Obsessively turning the faucet off and on.
(c) Licking her fingernails.
(d) Rubbing her back against walls.

14. What does Alice's family believe is in Florida?
(a) Doctors who understand the healing power of nature.
(b) Homes that the working class can afford to buy.
(c) An abundance of sweet, ripe fruits.
(d) Job opportunities for an artist.

15. What happens to Walter?
(a) He leaves Alice and her mother.
(b) He is mugged and falls into a coma.
(c) He becomes a born again Christian.
(d) He dies from a heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother bring to her family members on Christmas?

2. What does Mother say of Arlette's appearance?

3. What does Alice worry will harm Arthur?

4. What is true about Nonna?

5. What is Alice's main feeling, as expressed in Part One, about being orphaned?

(see the answer keys)

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