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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Jeannette's parents live in Part 1 of the book?
(a) With friends in a housing project.
(b) They are homeless.
(c) In a nursing home.
(d) In a halfway house.

2. What does Rose Mary inherit when her mother dies?
(a) Several hundred thousand dollars.
(b) Her mother's jewelry collection.
(c) A house in Arizona and land in Texas.
(d) A mansion.

3. What type of childhood does Jeannette say she had?
(a) Unique.
(b) Sad.
(c) Typical.
(d) Frightening.

4. Why does Rose Mary dislike her teaching job?
(a) Rose Mary dislikes being with other people's children.
(b) Because teaching requires organization and discipline.
(c) She always wanted to be college professor.
(d) Teachers don't make enough money.

5. What happens when Brian goes to the Green Lantern?
(a) He sees his father there.
(b) The women there are very kind to him.
(c) He is embarrassed and runs away.
(d) A woman throws things at him and tells him to leave.

6. Why won't Rose Mary talk about her homelessness?
(a) She is deeply ashamed.
(b) She is afraid of being put into a nursing home.
(c) She doesn't want her daughter to lecture her.
(d) It is genuinely not important to her.

7. What is Jeannette's profession?
(a) Journalist.
(b) Elementary Teacher.
(c) Literature Professor.
(d) Scientist.

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

9. Who helps Rose Mary write and organize her lesson plans?
(a) Brian.
(b) Another teacher.
(c) Rex.
(d) Lori.

10. Why does Jeannette enjoy staying in the hospital?
(a) Because she gets lots of presents from her family.
(b) Because she is angry at her family, and doesn't want to go home.
(c) Because there are lots of children to be friends with.
(d) Because it is quiet and not chaotic.

11. What is Jeannette's mother doing when Jeannette hurt herself in Part 2?
(a) She is helping Jeannette.
(b) She is asleep in the living room.
(c) She is in the other room, painting.
(d) She is not in the house.

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

13. How does Rose Mary feel about her current living situation?
(a) She has been looking for a new place for a while and is very frustrated.
(b) She is angry that she cannot find a job.
(c) She is all right with being homeless.
(d) She is thinking about returning to her parent's home.

14. What does Jeannette feel when she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?
(a) Shame.
(b) Envy.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Anger.

15. The family often lacks basic necessities, which is underscored by an incident in which Jeannette finds her sister, Lori, eating what?
(a) Apples from the neighbor's tree.
(b) Dirt.
(c) A stick of margarine with some sugar.
(d) Food that she found out in the yard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rex work when the family lives in Battle Mountain?

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

3. What do the children think of their new home in Arizona?

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

5. Who is Billy Deel?

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