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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 the Walls children get along socially at their new school in Part 3?
(a) The other kids ignore them.
(b) The other children make fun of them and they get into fights.
(c) The other kids all want to be friends with them because they're new.
(d) The other children are jealous of them.

2. What is Jeannette's occupation in New York in Part 4?
(a) Editor.
(b) Artist.
(c) Musician.
(d) Teacher.

3. What does Jeannette do with the stolen item from her job?
(a) She gives it to her father.
(b) She sells it.
(c) She returns it after just one day.
(d) She tells her sister to do what she wants to with it.

4. Where does the Wall family move at the beginning of Part 3 of the book?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Texas.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) Welch, West Virginia.

5. Since the Walls family cannot find a house they can afford to rent, what do they do instead?
(a) Buy a house.
(b) Live in an abandoned house.
(c) Move in with friends.
(d) Build a house from found materials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeannette tell her parents about the social worker visiting the house?

2. What incident gets Maureen sentenced to one year in the hospital?

3. What ends up happening to the hole the children dig in the backyard in Part 3?

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

5. How does Rex put Jeannette in a potentially dangerous situation in Part 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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