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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rex has no money to buy Christmas presents for the children, what does he give them?
(a) A star.
(b) A pet puppy.
(c) A trip to the zoo.
(d) An hour to talk with him about anything they want.

2. 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) Jeannette takes things from home and trades the items for food.
(c) She brings in apples from a neighbor's tree.
(d) She steals her sister's food.

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

4. What is Rose Mary doing when Jeannette first sees her at the beginning of the book?
(a) Her mother is arguing with a police officer.
(b) Her mother is injured, on the side of the road.
(c) Her mother is digging through a dumpster.
(d) Her mother is grocery shopping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rex lose so many jobs?

2. What is Jeannette's manner of telling her story in Part 1?

3. Why won't Rose Mary talk about her homelessness?

4. What do the children discover that their mother is doing while they have no food in the house?

5. What are Jeannette's parents' feelings regarding society's rules?

(see the answer key)

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