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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the members of Mother's family react to the gifts she gives them at Christmas?
(a) They are hurt.
(b) They are pleased.
(c) They make no comment.
(d) They are angry.

2. Who does Alice refer to as the Bobs and Ricks?
(a) The men Mother dated before Walter.
(b) People like Arthur.
(c) The boys she dates.
(d) Boring men, unlike Father.

3. Who wears a cracked and smelly leather jacket?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Walter.
(c) Alice.
(d) Father.

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

5. What best describes Mother before she goes to the San?
(a) Paranoid.
(b) Thin and bulimic.
(c) Creative and flamboyant.
(d) Depressed and suicidal.

6. Who does Aunt Frances tell Alice is paying for her living expenses while Mother is in the San?
(a) Arlette.
(b) Mother's Trust.
(c) Uncle Billy.
(d) Nonna.

7. What does Alice worry will harm Arthur?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Steroid medication.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Aunt Frances' demands.

8. How is mother treated by her mother and other family members?
(a) She is respected.
(b) She is unappreciated.
(c) She is used and abused.
(d) She is handled with kid gloves.

9. Why did Alice's father want to bring Alice and Mother to Florida?
(a) To get a job at Disneyworld.
(b) To restore Mother's health with the healing sun and fruits.
(c) To escape the misery of his job.
(d) To create hope and show them sun and warmth.

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

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

12. What is Alice allowed to do with Mother's possessions as they are unpacked?
(a) Select one to keep in her room.
(b) Decide who to donate them to.
(c) Look, but not touch.
(d) Decide where to keep them.

13. Where does Nonna sleep when Alice lives with her?
(a) On the sofa by the fireplace.
(b) In a crib-like bed.
(c) On a twin bed just like Alice's.
(d) In the massive king size bed she had shared with her husband.

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

15. How old is Alice when her father dies?
(a) She doesn't remember.
(b) Ten.
(c) It's her 7th birthday.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice say she feels like, living with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy?

2. What does Arthur call Mother?

3. What best describes Walter and Mother's relationship?

4. What does Arthur do for mother?

5. Who put coffee in their child's milk bottle?

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