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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice ask Mother to sign in Part Four?
(a) A medical proxy form.
(b) A card for Uncle Billy.
(c) Bank business papers.
(d) A loan for Alice.

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

3. How old is Alice in Part Four: West 76th-Mother?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Twenty-eight, again.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty.

4. What does Alice do with some of her inheritance?
(a) Buys a house for Mother.
(b) Buys a house in Florida.
(c) Pays for Mother's medical needs.
(d) Buys an apartment in Manhattan.

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

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

7. Where do Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy live when Alice visits them in Part Four?
(a) Tucson.
(b) Florida.
(c) The Big House.
(d) Babados.

8. What item of Uncle Billy's does Alice show to Mother in Part Four?
(a) A milk punch recipe.
(b) A card he sent to Mother.
(c) An arrowhead from his collection.
(d) His birthday card.

9. How does Walter respond when Alice asks him to move out of her brownstone?
(a) He leaves immediately, swearing.
(b) He threatens her and hits her.
(c) He says he will only leave if she pays him.
(d) He promises he can change.

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

11. What does Alice argue with her aunt and uncle about after Arthur's death?
(a) The reason he died.
(b) Who should pay his expenses.
(c) Where Arthur is buried.
(d) Who gets his Magnavox.

12. 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.

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

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

15. How do Alice and her Walter each deal with their troubled relationship?
(a) She smokes pot and he drinks.
(b) He drinks and she plays the slots.
(c) They both drink and he hits her.
(d) She drinks and he gambles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret wish does Alice express after Nonna's funeral?

2. What is the last word that Mother speaks in the novel?

3. Why doesn't Mother attend the funeral in Part Three?

4. Who does Alice live with at the brownstone at West 76th Street?

5. What does Alice tell Mr. Early about Father?

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