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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the president during the start of the Great Depression?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) George H.W. Bush.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower.

2. What did Smarsh say in Chapter 5 that most people associate poverty with?
(a) Ugliness.
(b) City life.
(c) Prosperity.
(d) Rural life.

3. Who did Betty marry in 1971 to help her try to get her son back?
(a) Mark.
(b) Miguel.
(c) Jeffrey.
(d) Harry.

4. What did Betty say to Smarsh about the county jail, the entrance to which they would pass on their way to Betty's office?
(a) Everyone in there deserved to be in there.
(b) They state should release all non-violent offenders, and now.
(c) The jail was chronically overcrowded.
(d) Be good, because Smarsh did not want to end up in there.

5. Which ex-husband of Betty's did Jeannie remember as a "belt-snapper?"
(a) Arnie.
(b) Ed.
(c) Bob.
(d) Frederick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Aaron beat Betty when she was a child, as told by Smarsh in Chapter 4?

2. Who tells Smarsh she is smarter than most adults he knows?

3. What did Jeannie's new boyfriend do for a living in Chapter 4?

4. Where did Jeannie start her third kindergarten?

5. What business did Dorothy start in Chapter 5 that was fairly successful?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Smarsh learn from her father Nick regarding houses?

2. What happens that leads to Nick losing his house in Part IV?

3. Why was school so much better for Smarsh in Wichita than it had been at her old school?

4. In Part IV, what was Betty's husband Bob like to both her and Jeannie?

5. What made Betty's poverty more tolerable to other people, in Smarsh's opinion?

6. What habit does Smarsh pick up in Part III that she sometimes tells God she will try to stop?

7. How does Smarsh win an essay contest in fifth grade in Part III?

8. In Part IV, what does the maroon wall symbolize for Jeannie?

9. Why did Betty leave Ray, Jeannie's father?

10. Why does Smarsh think Betty did well in her job at the courthouse?

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