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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 is the last word that Mother speaks in the novel?

2. What is true of Alice's boyfriend?

3. What does Alice do at the end of Part Two:The Big House- Arthur?

4. Alice quotes someone, maybe her father, as saying, "A man sounds like money when he-"

5. In the section labeled Father, what does Mother tell Alice to do with her remains when she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mother's life when Alice visits her in California.

2. Explain why Alice finds herself in a lawyer's office when she is 30-years-old.

3. Is it right for Alice to ask her Mother to sign over access to Mother's trust fund?

4. Describe Alice's Walter.

5. What does Mr. Early represent to Alice?

6. Describe the circumstances of Arthur's death.

7. How has Mother and Alice's relationship changed when they are living on different coasts?

8. Describe the life that Alice creates for herself in New York.

9. How is Arthur's death handled by Alice's family?

10. Describe Alice's coping mechanism for dealing with hurtful memories of people in her past.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Many characters in the story struggle to be treated with dignity and respect and to treat themselves with self-respect. Answer the following questions with that fact in mind.

1) Which characters in the novel does Alice treat with the greatest and least amount of respect?

2) Which characters in the novel have the most and least self-respect?

3) What factors seem to indicate whether a character is treated with respect or not? Consider things like age, money, treatment of others, etc.

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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