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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Welch, Pages 183-241,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of work does Rex do while they are in Arizona?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Electrician.
(c) Bartender.
(d) He does not work.

2. Who is the youngest child in the Walls family?
(a) Charlene.
(b) Maureen.
(c) Jeannette.
(d) Brian.

3. Why does the family often pick up and leave in the middle of the night?
(a) Rex is convinced that government agents or police are after the family.
(b) The weather makes the baby sick.
(c) Rex is a convict and the family must not be discovered.
(d) Rose Mary wants the children to travel all of the time.

4. What incident gets the Walls family escorted out of the zoo by security?
(a) Rex allows the children to get behind the bars to pet a cheetah.
(b) Jeannette steals ice cream for her siblings.
(c) Rex tries to sneak all of the children in without paying admission.
(d) The children throw something at one of the lions.

5. What incident helps cement Jeannette's conviction to leave Welch and her family?
(a) She catches her father with another woman.
(b) Her father punishes her after she tells her mother to stop acting like a child.
(c) She gets into a fight with another girl at school.
(d) Her sister runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maureen spend most of her time during her adolescence?

2. How does Jeannette handle the family's finances while her mother is out of town?

3. How does Rex react when Jeannette accidentally burns the shed down?

4. Who is the oldest child in the Walls family?

5. Why does Rex say that the family must leave Las Vegas?

(see the answer key)

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