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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. How is Jeannette able to keep from going hungry at school after her father loses his job again?
(a) A kind teacher makes sure that she has lunch every day.
(b) She brings in apples from a neighbor's tree.
(c) She steals her sister's food.
(d) Jeannette takes things from home and trades the items for food.

2. In Part 2, what does Jeannette ask her father for as a Christmas gift?
(a) For her father to take her and her siblings to California.
(b) For a horse.
(c) For him to stop drinking.
(d) To be able to go to school in the same place for one whole year.

3. Where does Jeannette decide to meet Rose Mary in Part 1?
(a) At a homeless shelter.
(b) At a restaurant.
(c) At a hotel.
(d) At the author's apartment.

4. How does Erma differ from Grandma Smith?
(a) Erma is close her family, and Grandma Smith was distant.
(b) Erma is very urban and streetwise, while Grandma Smith was very "country".
(c) Erma is very kind and shy, while Grandma Smith was standoffish.
(d) Erma is callous and rough, while Grandma Smith was very nurturing.

5. How does Lori get burned at the house in Welch?
(a) She is playing with matches and catches her dress on fire.
(b) One of the children from school starts a fire in her yard.
(c) She is lighting a fire and the kerosene explodes on her.
(d) She is cooking for her younger brothers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Rex grow up?

3. What does Jeannette try to talk her mother into doing to make hers and the children's lives better?

4. Why does the family often pick up and leave in the middle of the night?

5. Why does Jeannette enjoy staying with Grandma Smith?

(see the answer key)

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