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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 Brian's occupation in Part 4?
(a) Miner.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Police officer.
(d) Teacher.

2. What is Erma's reaction when the children tell their parents about the incident between her and Brian?
(a) She says it is the truth but there is nothing wrong with what she did.
(b) She kicks the entire family out of the house.
(c) She breaks down and confesses to doing wrong.
(d) She says everyone but Brian can stay with her.

3. How do Jeannette's views of her parents' behavior change as she develops into a teenager?
(a) She starts to make excuses and find ways to justify all of the things that they have done.
(b) She is becoming resentful towards them.
(c) She understands more why they have done what they have done, and she agrees with them.
(d) She can no longer make excuses for their actions, as she did as a small child.

4. Why do the Welch children end up in special education classes?
(a) The teacher talks to them and decides that they aren't smart.
(b) Their mother tells the school that the children can't read.
(c) They can't understand the principal and don't answer his questions correctly.
(d) The children tell the principal that they want to be in slower classes.

5. What event leads to Rex's becoming (temporarily) sober in Part 4?
(a) He gets ill and is hospitalized for a time.
(b) Rose Mary threatens to leave him if he doesn't stop drinking.
(c) His doctor tells him he'll die if he doesn't get sober.
(d) His daughter begs him to get sober before her wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Rose Mary and Rex react to the children's story about the incident between Erma and Brian?

2. What does Jeannette want to do for a career by the time she is in 7th grade?

3. How does Jeannette's grandparents feel about her relationship with Dinitia?

4. What event precipitates the argument in which Erma ends up hitting Lori?

5. Who is Dinitia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Recount some of the events that demonstrate Maureen's difficulty in adapting to life as an adult.

2. When Erma dies, how does the Walls family react? How is Rex's reaction different from the rest of the family?

3. What incident leads Jeannette to finally making a friend in West Virginia?

4. Why does the owner of the paper that Jeannette works for talk her out of taking a job at his newspaper?

5. Describe Jeannette's reaction when her mother comes to her, begging her and her new husband to buy some property in Texas that abutted her own.

6. What events help form Jeannette's desire to be a professional writer?

7. What happens to the family's money when Jeannette is put in charge of managing it while her mother is gone?

8. What is Rex's mother, Erma, like, and how does she differ from Grandma Smith?

9. Why does Rose Mary quit her job, and what is Jeannette's reaction?

10. How does the condition of the Walls family home worsen during the spring in Welch?

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