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

3. What is the Green Lantern?
(a) A brothel that the children frequently walk by.
(b) The secret place where the children go to play.
(c) A bar where the parents often go.
(d) A spot in the woods where Jeannette and Brian play.

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

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

6. What does Jeannette do after she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?
(a) Calls her friend to talk.
(b) Goes on to a party.
(c) Asks to be taken back home.
(d) Cries.

7. Why does Rex say that the family must leave Las Vegas?
(a) He says that a blackjack dealer has figured out his "system" and they could get in trouble.
(b) The family is getting kicked out of their home.
(c) He wants to take them to stay with his mother-in-law.
(d) He says that the FBI is after them.

8. Which of the following descriptions might best describe Jeannette?
(a) Carefree, giddy.
(b) Angry, bitter.
(c) Indifferent, lazy.
(d) Self-reliant, strong.

9. Who takes care of baby Maureen while the family is moving?
(a) Lori and Jeannette.
(b) Brian.
(c) The Walls parents.
(d) Grandma Smith.

10. Why does Brian go to investigate the Green Lantern?
(a) Jeannette dares him to.
(b) His friends tell him he should.
(c) He wants to meet the girls there.
(d) He thinks he will see his father there.

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

12. What does Rose Mary want to discuss with her daughter in Part 1?
(a) Painters and a recent art exhibit.
(b) How she needs help.
(c) Politics.
(d) The author's childhood.

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

14. Where does Jeannette decide to meet Rose Mary in Part 1?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) At a hotel.
(c) At a homeless shelter.
(d) At the author's apartment.

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