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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Walter make Mother feel about herself?
(a) Needed and nurturing.
(b) Stupid and incompetent.
(c) Like she is a better person than she used to be.
(d) Guilty.

4. What does Arthur call Mother?
(a) Miss Alice.
(b) Allie.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Mrs. Bennet.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do the unreliables say about Aunt Frances?
(a) That she is glad to be rid of Alice.
(b) That she is like every white woman.
(c) That she is cruel.
(d) That she pays well.

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. What does Alice compare her mother's trip to the San to?
(a) Florida.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) The rebirth of a phoenix.
(d) Spring, after a long winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alice refer to her father?

2. What is NOT something that Alice does in Tuscon?

3. What character trait best describes Walter?

4. Who is Aunt Frances?

5. What possession of Mother's does Aunt Frances berate Alice for touching?

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