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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 took Betty and Jeannie camping at Cheney Lake in Chapter 6?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Herb.
(c) Dominick.
(d) Frederick.

2. Why did Betty agree to marry Dean?
(a) He was a good cook.
(b) Jeannie liked him.
(c) He had money.
(d) He was from Colorado, and she loved Colorado.

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

4. What phrase does Smarsh use to describe women on welfare in the late 1980s?
(a) Welfare queens.
(b) Welfare whores.
(c) Welfare woes.
(d) Welfare takers.

5. What job did the judge tell Betty was no job for a woman?
(a) Parole officer.
(b) Officer of the court.
(c) Correctional officer.
(d) County subpoena officer for the juvenile court.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which judge did Betty have a particularly friendly relationship with?

2. Smarsh says she is the the only female in her family who did not have which of the following?

3. Who was Dorothy's second husband?

4. Which Senator did a highly publicized investigation into supposedly rampant welfare fraud in 1962?

5. What problem did Smarsh realize her father suffered from in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part III, what is Smarsh's stepmother Chris like?

3. Why does Smarsh think being poor carries such a unique kind of shame in America?

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

5. What happens to Betty's mother in Part IV that has a negative effect on Betty and her young siblings at the time?

6. What does Smarsh say is a big differences between the poor and the middle-and-upper-class families who make mistakes?

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

8. How did Jeannie's boyfriend, also named Bob, treat Smarsh?

9. Why does Smarsh go to live with her grandparents just before turning 11?

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

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