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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the unreliables say about Aunt Frances?

2. How does Nonna react to the straw bag creations of Mother's?

3. What does Alice compare her mother's trip to the San to?

4. What does Mother tell Alice they will get when they go to Florida?

5. Where does Father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Alice want to be like her mother?

2. Why are Mother's crystal glasses important to Alice?

3. Was Father a happy man?

4. Why is Florida important to Alice?

5. How does Nonna feel about Mother?

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

7. Does Alice relate to the unreliables?

8. Is Uncle Billy satisfied with his life?

9. Explain if you believe that Alice is happy living with Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy.

10. Does Uncle Billy love Alice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Father's absence or Mr. Early's presence in Alice's life have a greater impact on the person she becomes by the end of the story? Write an analysis of this question and support your answer with specific examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Much of Florida is illustrated through the power of contrast. Select two of the pairings below. Compare and contrast the people, places or events and discuss how the resulting contrasts are used to develop characters or plot lines:

Father and Walter.

The Big House and the San.

Mr. Early and Father.

Life before Father's death and life after Father's Death.

Florida and New York, or Florida and Tuscon.

Aunt Frances and Mother.

Aunt Frances and the Unreliables.

Essay Topic 3

Does a setting create a character's experience or does a character impact and create parts of their setting? Using specific examples from the story, analyze the impact of setting on Alice in Florida.

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