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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does one of Mother's friends ask Alice about?
(a) Father's sculptures.
(b) Where her husband is.
(c) If she inherited her father's gift for music.
(d) Her abusive father.

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

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

9. Who calls Alice to tell her about Mr. Early's death?
(a) Aunt Frances.
(b) Mother.
(c) Mrs. Early.
(d) Arlette.

10. How is Nonna described in Part Two:The Big House-Arthur?
(a) As having a heart of stone.
(b) As being soft-hearted.
(c) As being heartless.
(d) As having a hardened heart.

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

12. What does Alice enjoy?
(a) Pottery.
(b) Painting.
(c) Literature.
(d) Playing the piano.

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

14. 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.

15. What does Alice say she is hoping for in the chapter labeled Short Identifications?
(a) Money falling from the sky.
(b) A vacation.
(c) A rich uncle from Madeira.
(d) A letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of Alice's boyfriend?

2. What does Mr. Early encourage Alice to do?

3. Where is Arthur when he dies, according to events in Part Four?

4. What does Alice say was Nonna's opinion of Father?

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

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