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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Smarsh say she became a mother to at a very young age?
(a) Herself, her little brother, and her own young mother.
(b) Her little sister.
(c) Her own baby.
(d) Her small cousin.

2. Where did many of Smarsh's uncles, aunts and cousins work in Wichita?
(a) Wichita airplane factories.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Retail stores.
(d) Farms.

3. What did Smarsh's family do one July 4 to make money?
(a) Charged admission to their swimming pool.
(b) Sold fireworks.
(c) Sold hot dogs.
(d) Sold potato pancakes.

4. What did Smarsh remember her father letting her do when they visited Betty in the hospital?
(a) Ride in a wheelchair.
(b) Eat in the hospital cafeteria.
(c) Buy flowers at the hospital gift shop.
(d) Walk into the hospital room alone.

5. Smarsh says the American economy is less like a dream than it is like which of the following?
(a) A restaurant meal.
(b) A race.
(c) A bed of flowers.
(d) An inconsistent god.

6. When did Betty and Arnie get married?
(a) August 1980.
(b) December 1985.
(c) September 1977.
(d) March 1950.

7. What is Smarsh's mother's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Jeannie.
(c) Michelle.
(d) Marsha.

8. What song does Smarsh remember dancing to in her family room?
(a) Madonna's Like a Virgin.
(b) Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer.
(c) Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
(d) Bruce Springsteen's I'm on Fire.

9. In Chapter 2, what life-threatening occurrences befell Smarsh many times?
(a) Lightening strikes.
(b) Near-drownings.
(c) Car wrecks.
(d) Falls from cliffs.

10. How many times had Betty been married by the time Arnie asked her to marry him?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

11. What did Jeannie have a knack for as far as home decorating?
(a) Sculpture and the use of mirrors.
(b) Making it look like she had more money than she did.
(c) Fine art.
(d) Using paint wisely.

12. What is Smarsh's father's name?
(a) Nick.
(b) Chic.
(c) Robert.
(d) Arnie.

13. Who was married to Dorothy, Smarsh's great-grandmother?
(a) Nick.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Robert.
(d) Chic.

14. Smarsh once read that what you do not transmute, you do which of the following with?
(a) Transmit.
(b) Bury.
(c) Tell.
(d) Kill.

15. What did Smarsh's mother ask her to do when she used to lie in bed with her mother sometimes?
(a) Stop eating.
(b) Be less warm.
(c) Stop breathing.
(d) Stop singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Smarsh's local priest not like that her mother let Smarsh do?

2. What does Nick teach Smarsh how to do to fall asleep more easily?

3. What was one of the side jobs Smarsh's mother used to do to make extra money?

4. How does Nick lose his pole barn in Chapter 2?

5. Why did Betty and Smarsh leave Betty's new house in the middle of the night in Chapter 3?

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