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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. Where do Aunt Frances and Uncle Billy live when Alice visits them in Part Four?
2. Where does Mother live at the time of Nonna's funeral?
3. How does Alice feel about Mr. Early?
4. How do Alice and her Walter each deal with their troubled relationship?
5. What health problem does Uncle Billy have in the last part of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mr. Early represent to Alice?
2. Describe Alice's Walter.
3. Why is Nonna kinder to Alice than she is to Mother?
4. Describe the role of poetry in Alice's life.
5. Explain why Alice finds herself in a lawyer's office when she is 30-years-old.
6. Is it right for Alice to ask her Mother to sign over access to Mother's trust fund?
7. Is Mother's interpretation of father's death believable?
8. Describe the life that Alice creates for herself in New York.
9. How has Mother and Alice's relationship changed when they are living on different coasts?
10. How does Alice repeat her mother's mistakes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Symbolism is seen in both Mother's fondness for naming things and in the use of locations as chapter titles.
1) Compare and contrast the Emerald Gem and the Mouse.
2) How do Arlette's stories differ from the Big House chapters?
3) Define Mother via these items: the Magnavox, the sun box, and her lost glove.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the following events contributed to Alice's coming of age in the novel.
1) Mother going to the San.
2) Moving to the Big House.
3) Arthur's death.
Essay Topic 3
Alice and Mother are the most central characters of the novel.
1) Explain how the power of their shared names impacts both figures.
2) Who is more strongly affected by her own mother: Mother or Alice? Explain.
3) Is Mother or Alice a more generous person? Explain.
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