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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possession of Mother's does Aunt Frances berate Alice for touching?
(a) Thumb-cut crystal glasses.
(b) Her parent's gold framed wedding photo.
(c) The opal earring that Aunt Frances wants to wear.
(d) A nude drawing.

2. How does Alice say that Arthur dies?
(a) He is murdered.
(b) An accidental drowning.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Cancer.

3. How does Alice become an orphan?
(a) Both her parents are hit by a bus.
(b) Her father dies and Mother is institutionalized.
(c) Father is institutionalized and Mother leaves for Florida.
(d) Her father leaves and Mother dies in a car crash.

4. What is Alice's main feeling, as expressed in Part One, about being orphaned?
(a) Grief; she barely gets out of bed.
(b) Confused that Mother doesn't stay with her.
(c) Relief that she is no longer abused.
(d) Anger that good parents are taken away while bad parents pollute the earth.

5. What best describes Walter's appearance?
(a) Soft curves and sharp eyes.
(b) Losing hair and scruffy.
(c) Fat and overgrown with hair.
(d) Disappointed mouth and Einstein hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Nonna's house located?

2. What does Mother do that embarrasses Alice when she visits her at the San?

3. Who is Aunt Frances?

4. Who beats broomsticks against the floor?

5. What does Alice say she feels like, living with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe some of Mother's strengths.

2. Does Alice want to be like her mother?

3. Why do you think Mother makes such extravagant gifts for her family at Christmas?

4. Why are the little gifts that Nonna gives to Alice important?

5. Describe Alice's friendship with Arthur.

6. Is Aunt Frances selfish?

7. How is Arthur's presence during Mother's trip to the San in Part One: Mother-Arthur important?

8. Does Uncle Billy love Alice?

9. Was Father a happy man?

10. Is it good for Alice to spend time with Mother?

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