View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Welch, Pages 129-183,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Apples from the neighbor's tree.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Food that she found out in the yard.

2. What else does Rose Mary tell Jeannette in their meeting that she should do?
(a) Accept her parents as they are.
(b) Help her parents to change.
(c) Move on and have her own life.
(d) Move away to another place.

3. Where does the Wall family move at the beginning of Part 3 of the book?
(a) Texas.
(b) Welch, West Virginia.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

4. What does Jeannette do after she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?
(a) Calls her friend to talk.
(b) Goes on to a party.
(c) Asks to be taken back home.
(d) Cries.

5. How does Rose Mary try to keep Rex from spending the family's money?
(a) She takes it to a bank and does not tell him.
(b) She spends it all before he can get at it.
(c) She hides it in the house.
(d) She lets the children handle the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rex say that the family must leave Las Vegas?

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

3. How do Rose Mary and Rex react to the children's story about the incident between Erma and Brian?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 450 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample