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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 does Jeannette expect her new grandparents to be like?
(a) Serious like her father.
(b) Warm, nurturing, and fun.
(c) She has no idea what having a grandparent would be like.
(d) Cruel, because that has been her experience.

2. How does Jeannette help Dinitia's brother?
(a) She plays with him when his sister won't.
(b) She shares some of her lunch when he is hungry.
(c) She gives him her money to get a drink.
(d) She chases away a dog that is bothering him.

3. What does Rex tell Jeannette when he takes her to the bus station in Part 3?
(a) That she is making a huge mistake and will not be able to get along without her family.
(b) That once she leaves, she is no longer welcome in the home.
(c) That he knows that she will be a huge success.
(d) That she is always welcome to change her mind and come back home.

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

5. What event leads to Rex's becoming (temporarily) sober in Part 4?
(a) He gets ill and is hospitalized for a time.
(b) Rose Mary threatens to leave him if he doesn't stop drinking.
(c) His doctor tells him he'll die if he doesn't get sober.
(d) His daughter begs him to get sober before her wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brian's occupation in Part 4?

2. Why does Jeannette confront her mother and say she is acting like a child?

3. What does Jeannette want to do for a career by the time she is in 7th grade?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Rex is largely absent from the family after they move to Welch. What has he been doing during this time?

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

8. How do the Walls parents fail to protect their children from Erma?

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

10. How does Rose Mary view her and Rex's living situation in New York? How do the other members of the family see things differently?

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