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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Alice say that Nonna described Mother?
(a) As shy and withdrawn.
(b) As precocious, loud and boisterous.
(c) As spirited and energetic.
(d) As eager to please.

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

5. What kind of poets does Alice say Father liked?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Ivy league approved classics.
(c) Senseless men who spouted jibberish.
(d) Hairy, bearish and mad.

6. What does Alice expect when she visits her mother in the last chapter?
(a) That she will pay more than she can afford for Mother's burial.
(b) That Mother will be unable to speak.
(c) That the nurses will have plans for Mother's room.
(d) That Mother will die.

7. What does Mother tell Alice was found in Father's car after he died?
(a) A present for Mother.
(b) His briefcase.
(c) A brochure for Daytona Beach.
(d) A present for Alice.

8. Why does Alice first return to the Big House years after leaving?
(a) To auction off Nonna's remaining possessions.
(b) For Nonna's funeral.
(c) To visit Mother.
(d) For Uncle Billy's funeral.

9. Who does she think of to balance her thoughts of the hurtful people in her life?
(a) Arthur carrying her on his back.
(b) Mr. Early and kind teachers.
(c) Her future children.
(d) A storybook family.

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

11. What does Alice say that Nonna felt about her children?
(a) She never wanted to have children.
(b) She felt they deserved a better mother.
(c) She adored her children.
(d) She never wanted a second child.

12. Who replaces Arthur?
(a) Robert.
(b) John.
(c) Mr. Lee.
(d) Duane.

13. Who does Mother live with when Alice goes to visit her after Nonna's funeral?
(a) Her cats.
(b) Aunt Frances.
(c) Another woman she met at the San.
(d) Mr. Early.

14. What does Alice say that Nonna claimed Mother lied about?
(a) Secretly dating Father.
(b) Nonna's husband having an affair.
(c) Mother's abuse.
(d) Stealing Nonna's paintings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice argue with her aunt and uncle about after Arthur's death?

2. What does Alice want to draw?

3. Who makes Alice a cake?

4. What does Mother say was true of Nonna's husband?

5. Where do Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy live when Alice visits them in Part Four?

(see the answer keys)

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