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

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

3. What is Rose Mary doing when Jeannette first sees her at the beginning of the book?
(a) Her mother is arguing with a police officer.
(b) Her mother is grocery shopping.
(c) Her mother is injured, on the side of the road.
(d) Her mother is digging through a dumpster.

4. Who is the oldest child in the Walls family?
(a) Jeannette.
(b) Maureen.
(c) Lori.
(d) Brian.

5. What incident gets the Walls family escorted out of the zoo by security?
(a) Jeannette steals ice cream for her siblings.
(b) The children throw something at one of the lions.
(c) Rex tries to sneak all of the children in without paying admission.
(d) Rex allows the children to get behind the bars to pet a cheetah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose Mary want to discuss with her daughter in Part 1?

2. Jeannette has how many siblings?

3. How does Rose Mary try to keep Rex from spending the family's money?

4. Why does Rex lose so many jobs?

5. Who is Billy Deel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was Jeannette's childhood atypical?

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

5. What incident precipitates the family's leaving Battle Mountain for Phoenix?

6. The author tells her story in a very straightforward manner. What does her style of writing say about her personality?

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

8. What is Rex's reaction to Rose Mary's plan to travel to West Virginia and what happens when the family gets ready to go?

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

10. How does Rose Mary try to make the family's Christmas in Phoenix special, and what happens to ruin it for them all?

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