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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 Rex react when Jeannette accidentally burns the shed down?
(a) He does not realize that Jeannette is responsible.
(b) He beats Jeannette.
(c) He is not angry and turns it into a physics lesson.
(d) He makes Jeannette and Brian rebuild the barn.

2. Why does Jeannette meet Rose Mary at this location in Part 1?
(a) Because she doesn't want to be seen with her mother.
(b) Her mother will only meet her in public.
(c) Because her mother likes it there.
(d) She doesn't want her mother to see where she lives.

3. Where does Rex work when the family lives in Battle Mountain?
(a) In a mine.
(b) As a bartender.
(c) He does not have a job.
(d) As a hospital orderly.

4. Where is Jeannette going when she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?
(a) She is in a cab, on the way to a party.
(b) She is in line at the pharmacy.
(c) She is walking down the street.
(d) She is working in her office.

5. What happens when Jeannette is released from the hospital?
(a) Jeannette's mother cannot pay the bill, so the hospital lets her go.
(b) She is able to get up and walk outside so the doctor tells her she can go.
(c) Her father takes her out against medical advice.
(d) The doctors realize that they cannot keep her from her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeannette feel as she looks around her comfortable apartment?

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

3. How long has Rex worked at the job in Battle Mountain before leaving it?

4. What does Jeannette feel when she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?

5. Why does Rose Mary dislike her teaching job?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is life like for the Walls children when they first move to Phoenix?

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

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

5. How was Jeannette's childhood atypical?

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

7. Rose Mary and Jeannette have very different views of the world. Why does Rose Mary tell Jeannette that her values are "all confused"?

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

9. What does the author feel towards her parents in light of the circumstances of her childhood?

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

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