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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. In Part 2, how old is Jeannette when she gets injured?
(a) Three years old.
(b) A few days old.
(c) Six years old.
(d) Ten years old.

2. What happens when the children are traveling in the back of the U-haul to Battle Mountain?
(a) The baby becomes very ill.
(b) The truck catches on fire.
(c) The door of the U-haul comes open and the parents don't notice.
(d) The truck breaks down and the children have to hike many hours.

3. Where is Jeannette finding food during the family's first winter in their new home in Welch?
(a) In the trash can at school.
(b) She is taking food from a neighbor's garden.
(c) She trades homework answers for food from her classmates' lunches.
(d) She steals from her teacher.

4. Why does Jeannette become upset at the man that gives her and her father a ride home from a bar in Part 3?
(a) He refers to her father as "the town drunk."
(b) He offers her money for food.
(c) He makes an off-color comment to her.
(d) He tells her that she won't ever be anything.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeannette explain her accident to the doctors and nurses at the hospital?

2. What incident gets the Walls family escorted out of the zoo by security?

3. Why does Rex leave home and disappear for several days following the death of his mother?

4. What happens to Jeannette when she first starts school in Blythe?

5. What ends up happening to the hole the children dig in the backyard in Part 3?

(see the answer key)

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