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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 Ann's last name?
(a) Peterson.
(b) Gibbons.
(c) August.
(d) Michaels.

2. Where is Milton located decades later by a private detective?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Ft. Lauderdale.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Chicago.

3. Where are Ann and her mother traveling in Chapter 1?
(a) Miami.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. The father of the girl in #37 ultimately got a job ___________________.
(a) in the circus.
(b) shining shoes.
(c) catching fish.
(d) driving a truck.

5. Who was the foster child that Lillian's family took in?
(a) Darlene.
(b) Penny.
(c) Addie.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adele force Ann to do on Christmas Day?

2. Adele tells her Wisconsin relatives that ____________________________.

3. How did Carol and Jimmy hear about Hal's arrest for dealing drugs?

4. What does Ann's father give her when she sees him?

5. On what day of the week did Ann's grandmother visit her aunts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Adele's disappointing life with her first husband, Hisham.

2. How does Ann begin to assert some independence with her mother?

3. What does Adele reveal about herself when she refuses to stay at the job in Watts?

4. What does California symbolize to Adele?

5. Why is Adele jealous of Ann's burgeoning sexuality?

6. What is significant about the last time that Adele abandons Ann by the side of the road?

7. How are the Swans' lives comparable to Adele and Ann's life, even though the Swans live in an expensive home in an exclusive are of Los Angeles?

8. Explain how Adele has delusions of grandeur, particularly regarding Lonnie Tishman.

9. What do Adele and Ann do upon their arrival in Los Angeles?

10. What is significant about the vacation Carol and Adele spend on Mackinac Island?

(see the answer keys)

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