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

2. Where does Maureen spend most of her time during her adolescence?
(a) In her bedroom, alone.
(b) At friends' houses.
(c) With her teachers.
(d) Staying at her Grandpa's house.

3. How has Rose Mary reacted to previous offers of help from her children?
(a) She will not discuss it.
(b) She becomes angry but takes the help anyway.
(c) She tells them that she wants to change but doesn't know how.
(d) She has turned them down.

4. How do Rose Mary and Rex react to the children's story about the incident between Erma and Brian?
(a) They are enraged at Erma.
(b) They side with Erma, saying the children should have behaved better.
(c) They beat the children for lying.
(d) They pretend that they do not hear what the children are saying.

5. Since the Walls family cannot find a house they can afford to rent, what do they do instead?
(a) Move in with friends.
(b) Build a house from found materials.
(c) Live in an abandoned house.
(d) Buy a house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rex tell his family that he has lost his job?

2. How does Jeannette help Lori get to New York City?

3. Why does Rex take the children to the zoo?

4. What does Jeannette expect her new grandparents to be like?

5. Where is Jeannette finding food during the family's first winter in their new home in Welch?

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