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

2. How do Jeannette's views of her parents' behavior change as she develops into a teenager?
(a) She is becoming resentful towards them.
(b) She can no longer make excuses for their actions, as she did as a small child.
(c) She understands more why they have done what they have done, and she agrees with them.
(d) She starts to make excuses and find ways to justify all of the things that they have done.

3. What causes the argument that ends in Rose Mary being dangled out of the window by her feet by Rex?
(a) Rose Mary caught Rex cheating on her.
(b) Rose Mary wants to move again.
(c) Rex is angry at the children and tells Rose Mary.
(d) Rex's being absent from the house while he is "out making money."

4. What do Jeannette and Brian find when they are foraging in the woods?
(a) An expensive diamond ring.
(b) A fur coat.
(c) A set of golf clubs.
(d) A camera.

5. What does Rose Mary inherit when her mother dies?
(a) A house in Arizona and land in Texas.
(b) Several hundred thousand dollars.
(c) A mansion.
(d) Her mother's jewelry collection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the children go to shower after there is no longer any bathroom in their house?

2. What type of childhood does Jeannette say she had?

3. Where does Rex take Jeannette while her mother is gone in Part 3?

4. What is the Hot Pot?

5. What types of activities does Rex do with his children?

(see the answer key)

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