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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mother wear when Alice visits her at the San?
(a) Fuzzy slippers.
(b) A blouse with bleach spots.
(c) Stiletto heels.
(d) A discolored wig.

2. Who is Nonna?
(a) Alice's grandmother.
(b) A nurse who lives with Alice's grandmother.
(c) A foster mother.
(d) Aunt Frances's grandmother.

3. Does Alice want to live with Mother again?
(a) She is angry at having to make a choice.
(b) She dreads having to live with her again.
(c) She deparately wants to live with her again.
(d) She is conflicted, as her life is now stable.

4. What does Mother say of Arlette's appearance?
(a) She's as pretty as a pail of worms.
(b) Her good looks are wasted.
(c) She chased her good looks away on the last train.
(d) She's as pretty as dog chew.

5. What does Mother do that embarrasses Alice when she visits her at the San?
(a) Cries in public.
(b) Laughs like a crazy woman.
(c) Introduces Alice as "my sister."
(d) Sits on a piano and sings.

6. What type of feeling does Walter bring to Alice's home?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hope.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Security.

7. Who wears a cracked and smelly leather jacket?
(a) Walter.
(b) Alice.
(c) Father.
(d) Arthur.

8. What best describes Mother before she goes to the San?
(a) Paranoid.
(b) Thin and bulimic.
(c) Depressed and suicidal.
(d) Creative and flamboyant.

9. Who is upset about some of the things that Nonna often gives to Alice?
(a) Mother.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Uncle Billy and Aunt Frances.
(d) Miss O'Boyle.

10. How does Nonna react to the straw bag creations of Mother's?
(a) She beams with pride.
(b) She calls them cheap.
(c) She tosses them aside.
(d) She fusses over silly details.

11. What is The Big House?
(a) Miss O'Boyle's house.
(b) Nonna's house.
(c) A mental asylum.
(d) An art museum.

12. What does Alice ask Arthur when he looks tired?
(a) Where the bus stop is.
(b) How he is sleeping.
(c) If he needs to rest.
(d) If he is taking his medication.

13. What is Walter's favorite drink?
(a) Ginger ale.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Lemonade.
(d) Milk.

14. Why does Miss O'Boyle say that Nonna 's eyes are almost always open, wet and watching?
(a) She doesn't want to miss anything.
(b) She watches her parrot.
(c) She doesn't trust Miss O'Boyle.
(d) She doesn't trust Alice.

15. What is one thing the unreliables take from Aunt Frances?
(a) Her television.
(b) Money.
(c) Silverware.
(d) Alice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice compare her mother's trip to the San to?

2. How does Mother relate to men after the death of Alice's father?

3. How does Walter make Mother feel about herself?

4. What best describes Mother's life in the Mother-Arlette section of Part One?

5. What happens to Father when Alice is five?

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