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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. Who is Nonna?
(a) A foster mother.
(b) A nurse who lives with Alice's grandmother.
(c) Alice's grandmother.
(d) Aunt Frances's grandmother.

2. What happens to Father when Alice is five?
(a) He drives off one night and never returns.
(b) He is abducted.
(c) He goes to meet a business partner and never returns.
(d) He goes to buy milk and is hit by a train.

3. What is true about Nonna?
(a) She cannot speak.
(b) She is very active and loves to swim.
(c) She has fostered over 20 children.
(d) She is blind.

4. What does Florida represent to Alice and mother?
(a) A place to find Alice's father.
(b) A solution to their financial woes.
(c) Healing and health.
(d) Utopia and an escape.

5. What does Alice worry will harm Arthur?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Steroid medication.
(d) Aunt Frances' demands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arthur say that Mother asked him to do on the way to the San?

2. Why does Alice ask Arthur to drive her to the San on a daily drive?

3. How does Alice refer to her father?

4. What does Alice promise herself in Part One, when she is 12?

5. What does Alice recall eating while her father talked of Florida, in Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alice compare Walter and Father?

2. Why is Florida important to Alice?

3. Does Uncle Billy love Alice?

4. Is Alice destined to follow in Mother's footsteps?

5. Was Father a happy man?

6. Is Uncle Billy satisfied with his life?

7. Describe Walter's departure.

8. What is Walter like?

9. Do you think Father intended to take his family to Florida?

10. How does Arthur help to form an image of Mother?

(see the answer keys)

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