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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true of Mother when Alice visits her at the San?
(a) She has grown fat.
(b) She is calm.
(c) She is jittery.
(d) She has lost a lot of weight.

2. What is one thing the unreliables take from Aunt Frances?
(a) Money.
(b) Her television.
(c) Alice.
(d) Silverware.

3. What type of feeling does Walter bring to Alice's home?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Security.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

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

5. Who is Aunt Frances?
(a) Mother's sister-in-law.
(b) An employee at the San.
(c) Father's 98-year-old aunt.
(d) The old lady who lives next door.

6. Does Alice want to live with Mother again?
(a) She is angry at having to make a choice.
(b) She is conflicted, as her life is now stable.
(c) She dreads having to live with her again.
(d) She deparately wants to live with her again.

7. What does Arthur say about Mother in her defense in Part One?
(a) That she understood money was meant to spread joy.
(b) That her gift was creativity, not accounting.
(c) That she loved to shop for gifts.
(d) That she was generous and gave things away.

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

9. Who is Nonna?
(a) Aunt Frances's grandmother.
(b) A nurse who lives with Alice's grandmother.
(c) A foster mother.
(d) Alice's grandmother.

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

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

12. How does Alice say that Arthur dies?
(a) A car accident.
(b) He is murdered.
(c) Cancer.
(d) An accidental drowning.

13. How does Alice refer to Arthur in Part 1?
(a) An indentured servant.
(b) A grandfather.
(c) A slave.
(d) A part of the family.

14. Why does Miss O'Boyle say that Nonna 's eyes are almost always open, wet and watching?
(a) She doesn't trust Miss O'Boyle.
(b) She watches her parrot.
(c) She doesn't trust Alice.
(d) She doesn't want to miss anything.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Alice's father want to bring Alice and Mother to Florida?

3. Who cares for Nonna's property?

4. Who does Aunt Frances tell Alice is paying for her living expenses while Mother is in the San?

5. What does Alice worry will harm Arthur?

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