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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 do Grandpa and Uncle Stanley react to Erma?
(a) They don't stand up to her.
(b) They are embarrassed by her.
(c) They yell at her a lot.
(d) They are abusive towards her.

2. How does Jeannette's grandparents feel about her relationship with Dinitia?
(a) They are glad Jeannette has found a friend.
(b) They don't like it because Dinitia is black.
(c) They dislike Dinitia because they once had a a feud with her parents.
(d) They're friends with Dinitia's parents and enjoy having her around.

3. Where is Rose Mary living at the time of the Thanksgiving dinner?
(a) In Lori's apartment.
(b) In a women's shelter.
(c) In the same abandoned apartment building that she and Rex had been squatting in for years.
(d) In her own apartment.

4. Where does Maureen go upon her release from the hospital?
(a) To her parent's old house in Welch.
(b) Back to the family home in Phoenix.
(c) To California.
(d) To live with her sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Jeannette's parents express concern over her living arrangement in New York?

3. Where does Erma tell the children to go stay after the argument with Lori?

4. For what purpose do Jeannette and Brian start digging a large hole in the backyard?

5. Where do Jeannette and Lori first live in New York City?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How are Brian, Maureen, and Jeannette's ways of coping with their home life differ? What does each of them do?

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

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

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

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