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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. Where does Jeannette attend college?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Boston College.

2. What happens when Jeannette goes swimming in a public pool?
(a) She finally finds something that she can enjoy doing during the summer.
(b) The other children mock her for living in a "trash heap" and chase her out of the pool.
(c) She nearly drowns after getting into a fight with another girl.
(d) A neighborhood girl befriends her.

3. Where do Jeannette and Lori first live in New York City?
(a) In a flophouse.
(b) With friends.
(c) In a house that they purchase with their savings.
(d) In a hostel.

4. What happens to the money that Jeannette is supposed to use to feed the family in Part 3?
(a) It only lasts a few weeks.
(b) She wastes it all on things for the house.
(c) The kids are able to make it last until their mother returns.
(d) Her brother and sisters take it before she can buy groceries.

5. Why does Rex leave home and disappear for several days following the death of his mother?
(a) He goes to stay with another woman.
(b) He gets upset at his family for not respecting his mother's funeral.
(c) He gets into a big fight with Rose Mary about money.
(d) He is embarrassed that he has lost another job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John?

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

3. Rex dies during Part 4 as a result of:

4. How did the Walls family heat their home during the winter?

5. How does Rex put Jeannette in a potentially dangerous situation in Part 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What changes does Jeannette make in her life after her father dies?

4. What happens when Jeannette makes an attempt to fix up her family's ramshackle home in West Virginia?

5. What are some of the reasons that the children do not like going to school in Welch?

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

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

8. After the incident between the children and Erma, what does Jeannette begin to wonder about her father?

9. What plans do Lori and Jeannette begin to make for themselves at the end of Part 3?

10. Why does Rose Mary decide to hang on to the diamond ring that the children find in the woods rather than selling it for much needed money? What does this say about her priorities?

(see the answer keys)

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