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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. How does Rex put Jeannette in a potentially dangerous situation in Part 3?
(a) By letting her stay out all night.
(b) By giving her alcohol.
(c) By leaving her alone at home.
(d) By having her "entertain" a man who he is playing pool with.

2. Which of the following does Rose Mary tell Jeannette about changing?
(a) That she needs a lot of help if she is going to change.
(b) That she does not want to change.
(c) That she would change if she wasn't so old.
(d) That she cannot change because of her husband.

3. What is the glass castle?
(a) A place that the kids go to play.
(b) The house that Rose Mary grew up.
(c) A home that Rex dreams of building for his family.
(d) The place that Jeannette escapes to in her dreams.

4. Rose Mary hopes to do what while they are living in Phoenix?
(a) Learn to cook.
(b) Open an art gallery.
(c) Go back to college.
(d) Get her children into a better school.

5. What happens when Jeannette goes swimming in a public pool?
(a) She nearly drowns after getting into a fight with another girl.
(b) A neighborhood girl befriends her.
(c) She finally finds something that she can enjoy doing during the summer.
(d) The other children mock her for living in a "trash heap" and chase her out of the pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Walls parents teach the children?

2. Why does Jeannette begin to refuse to go to her uncle's house?

3. What happens when the children are traveling in the back of the U-haul to Battle Mountain?

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

5. Who is Ginnie Sue?

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