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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Alice live with at the brownstone at West 76th Street?
(a) Gloria, her talking bird.
(b) Walter, her husband.
(c) Gloria, her roommate.
(d) Walter, her boyfriend.

2. What health problem does Uncle Billy have in the last part of the story?
(a) Breathing problems.
(b) Heart problems.
(c) Sleep Apnea.
(d) Diabetes.

3. Alice quotes someone, maybe her father, as saying, "A man sounds like money when he-"
(a) Is aggressive and loud.
(b) Makes money.
(c) Speaks like a poet.
(d) Wears expensive shoes.

4. What one subject is mentioned that Nonna and Alice talk about?
(a) Poetry.
(b) The history of objects in The Big House.
(c) Mother and Father.
(d) Mental asylums.

5. What does Mr. Early notice about Alice?
(a) That she shows a sensibility for literature.
(b) That she has a habit of going unnoticed.
(c) That she has an eye for art.
(d) That she looks and acts just like her mother.

6. What does Alice learn that Mother has been doing in Part Four: Arthur-Mother?
(a) Lying about Father's profession.
(b) Saying Father is still alive.
(c) Pretending she has just left her husband.
(d) Telling people she never married.

7. What promise does Alice say she neglected to keep to Mr. Early?
(a) To attend his retirement party.
(b) To become a poet.
(c) To take his class at a local college.
(d) To meet him for coffee.

8. Why is Mother's appearance changed when Alice goes to visit her after Nonna's funeral?
(a) She is tanned and healthyl
(b) She has bulimia and has lost weight.
(c) She is bald from the chemotherapy.
(d) She has dyed her hair red.

9. What does Alice do at the end of Part Two:The Big House- Arthur?
(a) She steals one of Nonna's paintings to sell.
(b) She get a job taking tickets at the art museum.
(c) She hitchhikes to Florida.
(d) She moves out of The Big House.

10. Where do Alice and Aunt Frances go together in the final chapter?
(a) On a boat tour.
(b) For a walk around the lake.
(c) To visit Mother.
(d) On a jeep ride to the mountains.

11. How does Alice say she misses her mother?
(a) The way I miss a chair when I sit down.
(b) Like a fish misses a bicycle.
(c) The way I think I will miss her when she dies.
(d) Like a fish misses water.

12. What does Aunt Frances confide to Alice during their last visit in the book?
(a) That she regrets being so strict with Alice.
(b) That she has cancer.
(c) That she misses Uncle Billy.
(d) That she sometimes steals packs of gum.

13. What secret wish does Alice express after Nonna's funeral?
(a) To have a child.
(b) To be a poet.
(c) To move to Florida.
(d) To play with the philharmonic.

14. Why is Alice in a lawyer's office?
(a) To deal with Nonna's estate.
(b) To deal with Arhtur's estate.
(c) To avoid forecolsure on her brownstone.
(d) To figure out what she owes Walter's estate.

15. What does Alice say she misses about men in the Any House chapter?
(a) Someone as messed up as me.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Their touching ways.
(d) Their money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alice say that Nonna described Mother?

2. How long does Alice believe it took for Father to die?

3. How does Alice feel about Mr. Early?

4. How do Alice and her Walter each deal with their troubled relationship?

5. Who calls Alice to tell her about Mr. Early's death?

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