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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jeannette feel as she looks around her comfortable apartment?
(a) Angry.
(b) Tired of everything.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Guilty.

2. What is the Hot Pot?
(a) A special hiding place in the basement.
(b) A local bar that Rex frequents.
(c) The name of the place that the kids build a fort.
(d) A hot spring where the family goes to swim.

3. What is Rose Mary's philosophy on child-rearing?
(a) She will not let children out of her sight.
(b) She thinks that children should not be allowed to make decisions.
(c) She believes that children need freedom and no structure.
(d) She believes in very harsh discipline.

4. When Rex has no money to buy Christmas presents for the children, what does he give them?
(a) An hour to talk with him about anything they want.
(b) A star.
(c) A pet puppy.
(d) A trip to the zoo.

5. Where did Jeannette's mother grow up?
(a) Arizona.
(b) London.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Rose Mary write and organize her lesson plans?

2. What is Rose Mary doing when Jeannette first sees her at the beginning of the book?

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

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

5. Why does the family leave for Arizona in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe her father in Part 2 of the book?

2. "The Glass Castle" is the author's story of the unusual, and some would say tragic, circumstances of her childhood. What is the author's tone as she tells her story? How does this reflect who she is as a person?

3. How do Lori and Jeannette help take responsibility for the new baby, Maureen, on the trip to their new home in Part 2?

4. Why does Rex dislike staying with Rose Mary's mother (Grandma Smith)?

5. How does Rex teach Jeannette to swim, and how is it representative of his philosophy of parenting in general?

6. What does Grandma Smith provide for Jeannette that she doesn't get at home?

7. Why does Rex take the children over the safety fence to touch a cheetah at the zoo?

8. What are some of the unorthodox ways that the Walls parents get money and items for the house?

9. Why does the Walls family frequently pack up and move in the middle of the night?

10. What event happened the day that Rose Mary and Rex met, that Rex says caused him to fall in love with her?

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