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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 does Alice say she is hoping for in the chapter labeled Short Identifications?

2. How does Alice say she misses her mother?

3. What does Mr. Early notice about Alice?

4. What does Alice say that Nonna felt about her children?

5. How did Alice and Mr. Early keep in touch until his death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Alice's Walter.

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

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

4. Why is Nonna kinder to Alice than she is to Mother?

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

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

7. What is Alice's Florida when she is in high school?

8. Was living with Uncle Billy and Aunt Frances good for Alice?

9. Describe the circumstances of Arthur's death.

10. Does Alice love Uncle Billy and Aunt Frances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The Fiveys seem to struggle to communicate with one another.

1) How is Nonna's inability to speak reflect on the Fiveys?

2) How do different members of Alice's family attempt to communicate their love for each other?

3) Which member of the family is the best and worst communicator? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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