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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of a place is the location where Mother lives in Part Four?
2. What does Alice expect when she visits her mother in the last chapter?
3. Who replaces Arthur?
4. What does Alice say she is hoping for in the chapter labeled Short Identifications?
5. Where do Alice and Aunt Frances go together in the final chapter?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the relationship between Mother and Nonna.
2. Is Alice happy at the end of the story?
3. Why does Mother tell people that Father was a sculptor?
4. Describe Mother's life when Alice visits her in California.
5. How has Mother and Alice's relationship changed when they are living on different coasts?
6. What is the impact of Mr. Early's death on Alice?
7. Describe the role of poetry in Alice's life.
8. Describe the life that Alice creates for herself in New York.
9. Describe Alice's Walter.
10. Is it right for Alice to ask her Mother to sign over access to Mother's trust fund?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Symbolism is seen in both Mother's fondness for naming things and in the use of locations as chapter titles.
1) Compare and contrast the Emerald Gem and the Mouse.
2) How do Arlette's stories differ from the Big House chapters?
3) Define Mother via these items: the Magnavox, the sun box, and her lost glove.
Essay Topic 2
Does a setting create a character's experience or does a character impact and create parts of their setting? Using specific examples from the story, analyze the impact of setting on Alice in Florida.
Essay Topic 3
Alice has multiple parental figures, good and bad, in Florida. Answer the following questions using examples from the story.
Who is a better mother: Mother or Nonna?
Who is a better father figure for Alice: Mr. Early or Arthur?
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