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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. Where do Rex and Rose Mary live when they eventually move to New York?
(a) In a boardinghouse and then a flophouse.
(b) In Lori's apartment.
(c) In a homeless shelter.
(d) With Jeannette and her boyfriend.

2. What does Jeannette try to talk her mother into doing to make hers and the children's lives better?
(a) Getting a better job.
(b) Moving back to Phoenix.
(c) Leaving her father.
(d) Getting her father into rehab for his drinking.

3. What does Jeannette want to do for a career by the time she is in 7th grade?
(a) Be a scientist.
(b) Be a writer.
(c) Be a teacher.
(d) Be a social worker.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeannette finance her rent during her college years?

2. What happens to the money that Lori and Jeannette have been saving?

3. Where does Jeannette attend college?

4. Why does Jeannette end up stealing from her place of employment?

5. What do Jeannette and Brian find when they are foraging in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rex and Rose Mary's living arrangements and lifestyle in New York.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. How does Rex, despite all of his problems, show his devotion to Jeannette during her college years?

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