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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Grandpa and Uncle Stanley react to Erma?
(a) They are embarrassed by her.
(b) They are abusive towards her.
(c) They yell at her a lot.
(d) They don't stand up to her.

2. What happens that saves Jeannette from having to drop out of school because of financial problems?
(a) She borrows money from her sister.
(b) She gets a high-paying job.
(c) Her mother sells her jewelry to help her.
(d) Her father comes up with the money for her tuition.

3. Where is Rose Mary living at the time of the Thanksgiving dinner?
(a) In a women's shelter.
(b) In Lori's apartment.
(c) In her own apartment.
(d) In the same abandoned apartment building that she and Rex had been squatting in for years.

4. What does Jeannette try to talk her mother into doing to make hers and the children's lives better?
(a) Leaving her father.
(b) Getting a better job.
(c) Getting her father into rehab for his drinking.
(d) Moving back to Phoenix.

5. What does Jeannette tell her parents about the social worker visiting the house?
(a) That they need to do something to help keep the family together.
(b) That she told the social worker the truth about what is going on in the home.
(c) That she told the social worker to go away.
(d) That she hopes that the social workers take her to a new home.

6. Rex dies during Part 4 as a result of:
(a) Suicide.
(b) Liver failure due to alcoholism.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A heart attack.

7. When Jeannette is sent out to get her father in Welch, where does she finally find him?
(a) At his mother's house.
(b) At a bar.
(c) At the Green Lantern.
(d) Passed out on the side of the road.

8. Who is Ginnie Sue?
(a) Lori's only friend, who stands up for her with the other kids.
(b) Jeannette's imaginary friend.
(c) A woman who Rex is having an affair with.
(d) A prostitute who lives in the Walls neighborhood, and whose daughter Jeannette is friends with.

9. What is the condition of the Wells' house like when spring comes in Part 3?
(a) The family has added onto the house, so there is more room for the children.
(b) The house has been burned down.
(c) The kids paint the outside and fix up the yard, but the inside is still in bad shape.
(d) The house is deteriorating with mold everywhere and no front door.

10. Who is John?
(a) Brian's best friend.
(b) Rex's brother.
(c) Jeannette's son.
(d) Jeannette's second husband.

11. Why do Rex and Rose Mary leave the children with their grandparents?
(a) To go on a second honeymoon.
(b) To return to Phoenix to pick up their belongings.
(c) Because Rex has a new moneymaking scheme in Texas.
(d) They want the kids to spend 'quality time' with Erma.

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

13. How does Jeannette handle the family's finances while her mother is out of town?
(a) She spends it all on food to last the entire month before her father can get to it.
(b) She hides all of the money and doles it out sparingly.
(c) She gives money to her father when he asks, even though she knows she shouldn't.
(d) She wastes some of it on things for herself and is ashamed, but buys food with the rest.

14. Why does Jeannette begin to refuse to go to her uncle's house?
(a) Because she wants to help her mother instead.
(b) Because she is afraid to leave her siblings at home.
(c) Because she is mad at her grandfather, who also lives there.
(d) Because her uncle tried to molest her.

15. Where is Jeannette living at the time that her parents move to New York City?
(a) In a small apartment in the Bronx.
(b) With her boyfriend in a Park Avenue apartment.
(c) In her own home.
(d) With her sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose Mary tell the kids when they complain about their living conditions?

2. How do Rose Mary and Rex react to the children's story about the incident between Erma and Brian?

3. After Jeannette gets a divorce, what type of life does she choose to live?

4. What does Brian do after graduating from high school?

5. Where do the children go to shower after there is no longer any bathroom in their house?

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