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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What seems to be Arlette's role in the family?
(a) Book keeper.
(b) Peace keeper.
(c) To point out everyone's flaws.
(d) To point out everyone's good points.

3. How does Mother relate to men after the death of Alice's father?
(a) She is angry at all men.
(b) She avoids all men.
(c) She seeks out troubled men.
(d) She seeks a father figure.

4. Who is upset about some of the things that Nonna often gives to Alice?
(a) Miss O'Boyle.
(b) Mother.
(c) Uncle Billy and Aunt Frances.
(d) Arthur.

5. Who cares for Nonna's property?
(a) Nonna takes care of it herself.
(b) Uncle Billy.
(c) Arthur.
(d) Her son, Raymond.

6. What does Mother do that embarrasses Alice when she visits her at the San?
(a) Cries in public.
(b) Laughs like a crazy woman.
(c) Introduces Alice as "my sister."
(d) Sits on a piano and sings.

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

8. What best describes Walter's appearance?
(a) Losing hair and scruffy.
(b) Disappointed mouth and Einstein hair.
(c) Fat and overgrown with hair.
(d) Soft curves and sharp eyes.

9. How does Alice describe Aunt Frances' and Uncle Billy's house when she first goes to stay with them?
(a) As a TV family house.
(b) Like a museum with off limit ropes.
(c) Like a showcase home.
(d) As a no-touch house.

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

11. How does Alice say Mother sounds when she speaks?
(a) Excitedly; she seems to echo off the walls.
(b) Affected, like she is searching for the proper accent.
(c) Quiet, like she hasn't yet woken up.
(d) Uninflectedly, like she's thinking of something else.

12. Who are the unreliables?
(a) Hired help.
(b) Drifters.
(c) Locals on welfare.
(d) Door to door salesmen.

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

14. What is true about Father's death?
(a) The train driver was drinking.
(b) It's a suspected suicide.
(c) It's a suspected murder.
(d) Father was drinking.

15. What possession of Mother's does Aunt Frances berate Alice for touching?
(a) The opal earring that Aunt Frances wants to wear.
(b) A nude drawing.
(c) Thumb-cut crystal glasses.
(d) Her parent's gold framed wedding photo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who beats broomsticks against the floor?

2. What happens to Father when Alice is five?

3. What happens to Walter?

4. What best describes Aunt Frances?

5. Where is Nonna's house located?

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