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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. What is the Walls new house in Part 3 like?
(a) It is a mobile home.
(b) It is very small, but clean and modern.
(c) It is a very run-down one bedroom with no indoor plumbing.
(d) It is an old-fashioned house with lots of room.

2. What do the children discover that their mother is doing while they have no food in the house?
(a) She is taking money to gamble, rather than buying food.
(b) She is stealing food to put in their lunches.
(c) She is using drugs.
(d) She is hoarding candy bars and eating them by herself.

3. Why do the Welch children end up in special education classes?
(a) The children tell the principal that they want to be in slower classes.
(b) They can't understand the principal and don't answer his questions correctly.
(c) The teacher talks to them and decides that they aren't smart.
(d) Their mother tells the school that the children can't read.

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

5. How do Rose Mary and Rex react to the children's story about the incident between Erma and Brian?
(a) They pretend that they do not hear what the children are saying.
(b) They beat the children for lying.
(c) They side with Erma, saying the children should have behaved better.
(d) They are enraged at Erma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rex leave home and disappear for several days following the death of his mother?

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

3. How do Grandpa and Uncle Stanley react to Erma?

4. What does Rose Mary tell the kids when they complain about their living conditions?

5. What is Erma's reaction when the children tell their parents about the incident between her and Brian?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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