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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 help Lori get to New York City?
(a) She agrees to stay and help the family if they will let Lori go.
(b) She agrees to send Lori money to help her if she moves there.
(c) She gets her a babysitting job and a bus ticket.
(d) She helps her apply to college there.

2. When Jeannette is sent out to get her father in Welch, where does she finally find him?
(a) Passed out on the side of the road.
(b) At his mother's house.
(c) At the Green Lantern.
(d) At a bar.

3. Where is Jeannette finding food during the family's first winter in their new home in Welch?
(a) She steals from her teacher.
(b) In the trash can at school.
(c) She trades homework answers for food from her classmates' lunches.
(d) She is taking food from a neighbor's garden.

4. What does Jeannette do when she decides she needs braces for her teeth?
(a) She starts saving up money from her part time job.
(b) She tries to get a job at a dentist's office so that she can get braces.
(c) She makes homemade braces out of rubber bands.
(d) She tells her parents that she wants them for Christmas.

5. Why do Jeannette's parents express concern over her living arrangement in New York?
(a) They don't like her roommate.
(b) They think that her apartment is too small.
(c) They are concerned for her safety.
(d) They believe living in luxury will spoil her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ends up happening to the hole the children dig in the backyard in Part 3?

3. Why does Jeannette refuse to invite her father to her graduation?

4. What does Jeannette decide to do instead of following the guidance counselor's advice?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rex and Rose Mary's living arrangements and lifestyle in New York.

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

3. What is Jeannette's reaction when a social worker comes to visit the home, and what does she tell her parents about it?

4. 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.

5. How do the Walls parents fail to protect their children from Erma?

6. Why does Jeannette enjoy swimming with Dinitia more than going to the pool during the other swim sessions when the rest of the white children in Welch swim?

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

8. Rex is largely absent from the family after they move to Welch. What has he been doing during this time?

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

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

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