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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1984 July-December.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author do with the events she summarizes?
(a) She bases her book on them.
(b) She teaches journaling classes.
(c) She documents her pregnancy.
(d) She teaches Alzheimer's support classes.

2. What is placed all over the institution where Blanche lives?
(a) Plants.
(b) Clocks.
(c) Fire extinguishers.
(d) Gurneys.

3. Which of the following has Blanche not done by the middle of 1984?
(a) Turned apathetic about everything.
(b) Lost all her possessions.
(c) Balanced her checkbook.
(d) Isolated herself from others.

4. Annie has to remind herself that the situation with her mother ___________________.
(a) Is just temporary.
(b) Is impossible.
(c) Is reality.
(d) Is a payback.

5. The nurses tell Annie that her mother is always talking about _______________.
(a) Annie.
(b) Her house.
(c) Old boyfriends.
(d) Soap opera characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Annie recall that her mother did for even the smallest misbehavior?

2. What alarms Annie about her mother's daily life?

3. What does Annie find in her mother's nightstand table drawer?

4. When Blanche's needs change she is moved to ________________.

5. Annie's story addresses the changing role of _________________.

(see the answer key)

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