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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, The Desert, Pages 62-125,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the family often pick up and leave in the middle of the night?
(a) Rex is convinced that government agents or police are after the family.
(b) Rose Mary wants the children to travel all of the time.
(c) Rex is a convict and the family must not be discovered.
(d) The weather makes the baby sick.

2. The family often lacks basic necessities, which is underscored by an incident in which Jeannette finds her sister, Lori, eating what?
(a) A stick of margarine with some sugar.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Food that she found out in the yard.
(d) Apples from the neighbor's tree.

3. Which of these attributes does Jeannette NOT portray in her style of storytelling?
(a) Humor.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Self-pity.
(d) Forgiveness.

4. 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) To be able to go to school in the same place for one whole year.
(c) For a horse.
(d) For him to stop drinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rose Mary try to keep Rex from spending the family's money?

2. Which of the following best describes Jeannette's childhood?

3. After Lily Ruth Maureen is born, where does the family move?

4. What kind of work does Rex do while they are in Arizona?

5. How does Jeannette contact Rose Mary to set up a meeting in Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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