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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jeannette when she first starts school in Blythe?
(a) She has a very hard time academically.
(b) She is picked on because of her intelligence.
(c) She gets held back a grade.
(d) She hates school and hides out to avoid it.

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

3. Why does the family leave for Arizona in the middle of the night?
(a) They accidentally burned down their house.
(b) They have gotten into a feud with a neighboring family.
(c) Rose Mary lost her job and doesn't want anyone to know.
(d) The kids want to leave their school.

4. How does the Walls' financial situation improve for a time in Pheonix?
(a) Jeannette finds an after-school job that pays well.
(b) They are getting money from mineral rights on the land in Texas.
(c) Rose Mary begins to sell more of her paintings.
(d) Rex stops drinking and works regularly.

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

6. What is Jeannette's manner of telling her story in Part 1?
(a) Sarcastic.
(b) Angry.
(c) With great sadness.
(d) Straightforward.

7. How does Jeannette get food to eat at school when she's hungry?
(a) Her friends share their lunches with her.
(b) She eats things from the trash.
(c) She steals money to buy a snack each day.
(d) She steals from other children's lunches.

8. Why does Jeannette enjoy staying with Grandma Smith?
(a) She is very funny and easy-going and loves to play.
(b) She indulges the children's every whim.
(c) She provides a sense of stability and makes hot meals.
(d) She treats Rex with great respect.

9. Where did Rex grow up?
(a) Welch, West Virginia.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Biloxi, Mississippi.

10. Who is Billy Deel?
(a) Brian's best friend from school.
(b) Rex's grandfather.
(c) A neighborhood boy three years older than Jeannette.
(d) A good friend of Rex's.

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

12. What are Jeannette's feelings towards her parents in light of her upbringing?
(a) She wants nothing to do with her parents.
(b) She is filled with regrets about their relationship.
(c) She has a deep rage for them.
(d) She feels fondness and is a bit confused by them.

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

14. What basic needs do Jeannette's family not always provide?
(a) Education of any type.
(b) Food and shelter.
(c) Love.
(d) Safety.

15. How does Rose Mary try to keep Rex from spending the family's money?
(a) She spends it all before he can get at it.
(b) She takes it to a bank and does not tell him.
(c) She lets the children handle the money.
(d) She hides it in the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeannette feel when she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?

2. What causes the argument that ends in Rose Mary being dangled out of the window by her feet by Rex?

3. Why does the family often pick up and leave in the middle of the night?

4. What does Rose Mary inherit when her mother dies?

5. What was Rex doing when he met Rose Mary?

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