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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mother say was true of Nonna's husband?
(a) He was devoted to Nonna.
(b) He was a cruel and abusive man.
(c) He had a mistress.
(d) He was a poet.

6. How does Uncle Billy believe that Father died?
(a) Suicide.
(b) His poor driving.
(c) Murder.
(d) Accidental overdose.

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

8. What does Mother call her home in Part Four?
(a) The Nunnery.
(b) The Land of the Wasted.
(c) The Birdcage.
(d) The Cattery.

9. How did Alice and Mr. Early keep in touch until his death?
(a) Meeting for coffee.
(b) Email.
(c) Phone calls.
(d) Letters.

10. What does Alice tell Mr. Early about Father?
(a) That he killed himself.
(b) That he wanted to be a poet.
(c) That she looks just like him.
(d) That he was going to take her to Florida.

11. Who is Arthur driving when he dies?
(a) A burn victim.
(b) Aunt Frances.
(c) No one.
(d) Uncle Billy.

12. What does Alice say she and her students mourn?
(a) A teacher like Mr. Early.
(b) Dead poets.
(c) A culture that appreciated words.
(d) Leather-bound books.

13. What does Alice want to draw?
(a) Her aunt and uncle, their hands, their glasses.
(b) The desert at sunset.
(c) Mother, as she used to be.
(d) Her future.

14. What type of a place is the location where Mother lives in Part Four?
(a) A nursing home.
(b) A trailer.
(c) A singles apartment.
(d) A rehab clinic.

15. How do Nonna and Alice communicate?
(a) With hand gestures.
(b) By writing on a spiral notepad.
(c) With Miss O'Boyle as a translator.
(d) By writing on a slate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alice say she misses about men in the Any House chapter?

3. What does Alice ask Mother to sign in Part Four?

4. What does Aunt Frances confide to Alice during their last visit in the book?

5. What does Alice expect when she visits her mother in the last chapter?

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