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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 best describes Walter's appearance?

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

3. What type of feeling does Walter bring to Alice's home?

4. How does Alice become an orphan?

5. What happens to Walter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Alice's family was like before her father's death, based on information in the first chapter of the book?

2. Describe the Big House.

3. Is Aunt Frances selfish?

4. How does Alice compare Walter and Father?

5. Why do you think Alice and her mother have the same name?

6. Was Father a happy man?

7. What are Aunt Frances' priorities?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alice has multiple parental figures, good and bad, in Florida. Answer the following questions using examples from the story.

Who is a better mother: Mother or Nonna?

Who is a better father figure for Alice: Mr. Early or Arthur?

Essay Topic 2

Defining home and a place she belongs is not easy for Alice.

1) Compare and contrast the brownstone and Uncle Billy's house as homes for Alice.

2) Of all the places Alice lives, choose the two that most and least feel like home. Explain your reasoning.

3) Analyze the extent to which having Mother present is necessary for a house to feel like home to Alice at different times in her life.

Essay Topic 3

What is the Fivey family legacy? What legacy does Father leave to Alice? To what degree does each character choose to accept or reject the legacy they are given?

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