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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. In what room of the house did the Karr family eat their dinner until Grandma Moore came to stay with them?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the living room.
(c) In the bedroom.
(d) In the dining room.

2. On what was Mary lying at the opening of the memoir?
(a) Bloody linoleum flooring.
(b) A pile of dirty sheets.
(c) A goose-down pillow.
(d) A naked mattress.

3. What illness was Charlie diagnosed to die from at the age of two?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Chicken Pox.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Measles.

4. What type of medicine did the doctors pump into Grandma Moore's body with the hopes of slowing down the spreading of Grandma's cancer?
(a) Mustard gas.
(b) Liquid Nitrogen.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Arsenic.

5. Who was Mr. Thibideaux?
(a) Mary's teacher.
(b) Mary's bus driver.
(c) Mary's father.
(d) Mary's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did Grandma Moore live during Mary's childhood?

2. During what month of the year were the construction projects in the Karr family home complete, allowing for Grandma Moore to finally move in?

3. What food did Mary wake to find Charlie cooking, naked, at the oven in the middle of the night?

4. What did Charlie spend her day doing while at the beach with her family soon after Grandma Moore's funeral?

5. How tall was the wave of water Pete saw flooding in from the hurricane?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the neighborhood pitch in to help when Grandma Moore moved in with the Karr family?

2. Why did Charlie choose to vacation in Mexico for four weeks, and what news did she bring back to her daughters upon her return?

3. How did Charlie and Pete first meet?

4. What behaviors did Grandma Moore witness in the Karr girls as children that deeply disturbed her?

5. What did Pete witness of the hurricane when he refused to evacuate to Lubbock with his family?

6. Why did Mary begin to compulsively check the mailbox after Father's Day?

7. How did Lecia react when her mother threatened to shoot Hector in front of her?

8. What information did the girls receive from their father about their mother's whereabouts after she was committed to the psychiatric ward?

9. What parts of the school system in Antelope were different than the school system in Leechfield?

10. How did Pete manage the family's money during their toughest financial times?

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