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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. Rex dies during Part 4 as a result of:
(a) Cancer.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Liver failure due to alcoholism.
(d) Suicide.

2. Where does Jeannette get a job in Part 3?
(a) A nursing home.
(b) A cafeteria.
(c) A jewelry store.
(d) A supermarket.

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

4. How do Jeannette's views of her parents' behavior change as she develops into a teenager?
(a) She is becoming resentful towards them.
(b) She starts to make excuses and find ways to justify all of the things that they have done.
(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.

5. How does Jeannette describe her and Lori's first apartment together in New York?
(a) It is run-down and they are miserable.
(b) It's out in the middle of nowhere.
(c) It is very luxurious.
(d) It is bigger than their entire house in Welch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John?

2. In 7th grade, Jeannette finds a sense of belonging by:

3. Where do the children go to shower after there is no longer any bathroom in their house?

4. What does Jeannette try to talk her mother into doing to make hers and the children's lives better?

5. What does Brian do after graduating from high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What potentially dangerous situation does Rex put Jeannette in while her mother is out of town for training?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are Jeannette's feelings towards her parents by the end of the book?

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

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