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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 handle the family's finances while her mother is out of town?
(a) She wastes some of it on things for herself and is ashamed, but buys food with the rest.
(b) She spends it all on food to last the entire month before her father can get to it.
(c) She hides all of the money and doles it out sparingly.
(d) She gives money to her father when he asks, even though she knows she shouldn't.

2. What does Brian's mother do with what Jeanette and Brian find while foraging in the woods?
(a) She keeps it because it "raises her spirits".
(b) She sells it to a neighbor for less than it is worth.
(c) She loses it before she can sell it.
(d) She gives it as a gift to a friend.

3. Why does Jeannette begin to refuse to go to her uncle's house?
(a) Because she is afraid to leave her siblings at home.
(b) Because she is mad at her grandfather, who also lives there.
(c) Because her uncle tried to molest her.
(d) Because she wants to help her mother instead.

4. Who is Dinitia?
(a) Erma's sister.
(b) A little girl who at first bullies Jeannette, but then befriends her.
(c) A cousin of the Walls children who comes to stay with them.
(d) Rex's new girlfriend.

5. What does Jeannette decide to do instead of following the guidance counselor's advice?
(a) To stay at home, but drop out of school.
(b) To move to New York City immediately, even before graduating high school.
(c) To wait for graduation and then move back to Phoenix.
(d) To apply to top-notch schools.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the Welch children end up in special education classes?

3. How does Jeannette describe her and Lori's first apartment together in New York?

4. What does Jeannette's mother reluctantly do to help keep the family together in Part 3?

5. When Jeannette is sent out to get her father in Welch, where does she finally find him?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. What has the author found with her second husband that she did not have with her first?

7. Why is Jeannette so interested in going to Ginnie Sue's house? What is her visit like?

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

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

10. Why do Rex and Rose Mary follow their children to New York City to live?

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