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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 12 - 18 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pammy do to try to protect her mother from the rain?
(a) Wrap her arms around her mother.
(b) Let her use her only umbrella.
(c) Take off her sweathshirt and shield Alma with hit.
(d) Call to Debi for help.

2. What does Alma recall doing when she had once found Paul, Sr. passed out on their porch?
(a) She poured cold water on his head.
(b) She kicked him.
(c) She helped him to bed.
(d) She called the cops on him.

3. Who does Debi refer to as the love of her life?
(a) Phil.
(b) Tom.
(c) Carl.
(d) Paul.

4. At the end of the story, what does Alma believe must happen in order for everything to be fixed?
(a) She must stop seeing Paul.
(b) She must stop being Alma.
(c) She must admit her fault.
(d) She must pick up the babies.

5. What does Alma see when she looks at her hands after she died?
(a) They look like Paul's hands.
(b) They are like a baby's hands.
(c) They are melting.
(d) They are glowing red.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alma picture herself before she met Paul?

2. What does Debi recall her daughter doing when she brought a boy named Rob over, which Debi could not fathom?

3. What did Alma once do when Pammy and Paulie did not listen to her at the zoo?

4. What does Alma yell out when the baby girl asks her whose fault it was?

5. How does Debi think of herself as a mother?

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