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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Welch, Pages 129-183,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rex's educational background?
(a) He has no education beyond grammar school.
(b) He is educated and has worked as an engineer.
(c) He did not graduate high school, but is very well-read.
(d) He has never had any formal schooling.

2. What is the Green Lantern?
(a) A bar where the parents often go.
(b) The secret place where the children go to play.
(c) A spot in the woods where Jeannette and Brian play.
(d) A brothel that the children frequently walk by.

3. What happens when Jeannette is released from the hospital?
(a) Her father takes her out against medical advice.
(b) Jeannette's mother cannot pay the bill, so the hospital lets her go.
(c) She is able to get up and walk outside so the doctor tells her she can go.
(d) The doctors realize that they cannot keep her from her family.

4. What do the children discover that their mother is doing while they have no food in the house?
(a) She is stealing food to put in their lunches.
(b) She is hoarding candy bars and eating them by herself.
(c) She is taking money to gamble, rather than buying food.
(d) She is using drugs.

5. Why does Rex say that the family must leave Las Vegas?
(a) He says that a blackjack dealer has figured out his "system" and they could get in trouble.
(b) He says that the FBI is after them.
(c) He wants to take them to stay with his mother-in-law.
(d) The family is getting kicked out of their home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Walls' financial situation improve for a time in Pheonix?

2. How does Lori get burned at the house in Welch?

3. What else does Rose Mary tell Jeannette in their meeting that she should do?

4. What happens when the Walls children begin school in Phoenix?

5. Which of the following descriptions might best describe Jeannette?

(see the answer key)

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