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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Why does Rex lose so many jobs?
(a) He is an alcoholic.
(b) He does not have any skills.
(c) He threatens the other employees.
(d) He has a physical disability.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the oldest child in the Walls family?

2. What incident gets the Walls family escorted out of the zoo by security?

3. Who is the youngest child in the Walls family?

4. What is the Walls' house in Arizona like?

5. How has Rose Mary reacted to previous offers of help from her children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jeannette ask the cab driver to go back to the apartment after she sees her mother from afar in Part 1?

2. How is the accident when Jeannette gets burned symbolic of her childhood as a whole?

3. What is Rose Mary's reply in Part 1 to Jeannette's asking her what she should tell others about her mother?

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

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

6. How does Jeannette's adult life differ from her mother's?

7. "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?

8. What gift does Jeannette ask her father for on her tenth birthday and how does he react?

9. What are Rex's feelings about how the family finances should be handled? How does he manage money?

10. What does the glass castle represent, not only to Rex, but to the rest of the family as well?

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