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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 contact Rose Mary to set up a meeting in Part 1?
(a) She calls a mutual friend.
(b) She leaves her a note at a hotel.
(c) She sends a letter.
(d) She calls her father and asks him to relay the message.

2. What is the Walls' house in Arizona like?
(a) It is run-down and located in a bad neighborhood.
(b) It is a mansion, but has not been well cared for.
(c) It is an old Spanish-style villa with a pool.
(d) It is a small home that they share with her mother's friends.

3. What are Jeannette's feelings towards her parents in light of her upbringing?
(a) She has a deep rage for them.
(b) She wants nothing to do with her parents.
(c) She is filled with regrets about their relationship.
(d) She feels fondness and is a bit confused by them.

4. What basic needs do Jeannette's family not always provide?
(a) Education of any type.
(b) Love.
(c) Safety.
(d) Food and shelter.

5. What else does Rose Mary tell Jeannette in their meeting that she should do?
(a) Help her parents to change.
(b) Move on and have her own life.
(c) Move away to another place.
(d) Accept her parents as they are.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Rex lose so many jobs?

4. Why does Jeannette enjoy staying in the hospital?

5. What does Jeannette do after she first sees Rose Mary at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are some examples of the neglect that the children suffer during their time in both Battle Mountain and in Phoenix?

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

5. How was Jeannette's childhood atypical?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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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