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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, New York City, and Part Five, Thanksgiving,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jeannette get a job in Part 3?
(a) A supermarket.
(b) A nursing home.
(c) A cafeteria.
(d) A jewelry store.

2. How do Jeannette's views of her parents' behavior change as she develops into a teenager?
(a) She starts to make excuses and find ways to justify all of the things that they have done.
(b) She can no longer make excuses for their actions, as she did as a small child.
(c) She is becoming resentful towards them.
(d) She understands more why they have done what they have done, and she agrees with them.

3. What event throws Rex and Rose Mary into homelessness?
(a) They are kicked out of the shelter for stealing.
(b) Their daughter asks them to leave her house.
(c) Rex gets arrested, and they fall behind in the rent.
(d) The van that they are living in gets towed away.

4. Since the Walls family cannot find a house they can afford to rent, what do they do instead?
(a) Build a house from found materials.
(b) Buy a house.
(c) Move in with friends.
(d) Live in an abandoned house.

5. What does Jeannette do with the stolen item from her job?
(a) She sells it.
(b) She gives it to her father.
(c) She tells her sister to do what she wants to with it.
(d) She returns it after just one day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeannette feel as she looks around her comfortable apartment?

2. Where does Jeannette decide to meet Rose Mary in Part 1?

3. What does Jeannette plan to do after high school?

4. What else does Rose Mary tell Jeannette in their meeting that she should do?

5. What does Jeannette tell her parents about the social worker visiting the house?

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