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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. What was Rex doing when he met Rose Mary?
(a) He was working as an electrical engineer.
(b) He was in the Air Force.
(c) He was a traveling salesman.
(d) He did not have a job.

2. What does Jeannette try to talk her mother into doing to make hers and the children's lives better?
(a) Getting a better job.
(b) Getting her father into rehab for his drinking.
(c) Leaving her father.
(d) Moving back to Phoenix.

3. How does Rex react when Jeannette accidentally burns the shed down?
(a) He beats Jeannette.
(b) He is not angry and turns it into a physics lesson.
(c) He makes Jeannette and Brian rebuild the barn.
(d) He does not realize that Jeannette is responsible.

4. What types of activities does Rex do with his children?
(a) He tells them stories at night and plays outside with them.
(b) He likes to play board games and cards with them.
(c) He never does anything with them.
(d) He likes to paint and do ceramics with them.

5. How do the Walls children get along socially at their new school in Part 3?
(a) The other children make fun of them and they get into fights.
(b) The other children are jealous of them.
(c) The other kids all want to be friends with them because they're new.
(d) The other kids ignore them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brian's mother do with what Jeanette and Brian find while foraging in the woods?

2. What is Rose Mary's philosophy on child-rearing?

3. When Rex is able to get to the family's money, what does he spend it on?

4. Why does Rex tell his family that he has lost his job?

5. Which of the following descriptions might best describe Jeannette?

(see the answer key)

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