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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Alice promise herself in Part One, when she is 12?
(a) That she will be a poet like Father.
(b) That she will live with Mother again.
(c) That she won't let Aunt Frances have Mother's jewelry.
(d) That she will not be like Mother.

3. 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.

4. What does Uncle Billy do to some of Nonna's valuable pictures?
(a) He rehangs them in her bedroom.
(b) He has them framed for her.
(c) He writes his name on the back.
(d) He sells them at a pawn shop and gives her the money.

5. What happens to Father when Alice is five?
(a) He goes to buy milk and is hit by a train.
(b) He drives off one night and never returns.
(c) He goes to meet a business partner and never returns.
(d) He is abducted.

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

7. Where is Nonna's house located?
(a) Across the lake from Uncle Billy's house.
(b) In the city, next to an art museum.
(c) In front of a vast expanse of protected government land.
(d) Down the street from the San.

8. What is Walter's favorite drink?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Ginger ale.
(c) Milk.
(d) Lemonade.

9. What does Mother tell Alice they will get when they go to Florida?
(a) A house with a pool.
(b) Blonde and skinny.
(c) Healthy.
(d) A bird.

10. What does Aunt Frances make Alice do?
(a) Let her hair grow long.
(b) Attend an etiquette class.
(c) Cut her hair short.
(d) Take two baths a day.

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

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

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

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

15. Who put coffee in their child's milk bottle?
(a) A woman mother meets at the San.
(b) Nonna.
(c) Mother.
(d) Arlette's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "Here's to you, here's to me, here's to our new home!"?

2. How does Walter make Mother feel about herself?

3. How old is Alice when her father dies?

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

5. When does Mother go to the San in Part One?

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