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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. When does Russell's mother decide he should be a writer?
(a) When he was sixteen and writing for a paper.
(b) After an A paper he wrote in the seventh grade.
(c) Shortly after his birth.
(d) When he was five years old and loved to read.

2. When Uncle Hal arrives, what does he have in tow?
(a) Three dogs.
(b) A sheet of aluminum.
(c) Three boards.
(d) An old Model-T.

3. While his bully was Irish, Russell's friends were ______.
(a) Argentinian.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) Italian.
(d) Finnish.

4. How and when did Papa die?
(a) He died in 1917 of a heart attack at the age of 53.
(b) He died in 1918 of the flu at the age of 54.
(c) He died in 1910 in a carriage accident at the age of 47.
(d) He died in 1929 after the stock market crash at the age of 65.

5. What killed Benjamin at the young age of thirty-three?
(a) Gout.
(b) Whooping cough.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Acute diabetic coma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Uncle Hal's nickname?

2. Who offers Lucy Elizabeth a home until she can get back on her feet?

3. To what brotherhood did Grandfather George belong?

4. How many children did Ida Rebecca have?

5. What did Russell's mother insist he would do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the reasons Ida Rebecca dislikes Lucy Elizabeth?

2. Why has Uncle Charlie chosen never to leave the house?

3. Why don't Hal and Charlie get along?

4. What is the cause of Benny's death?

5. What is ironic about Russell's first appearance in print?

6. Explain the family's long lost fortune.

7. How does Lucy Elizabeth meet Benjamin?

8. What did Lucy Elizabeth feel was her greatest failure with Benjamin?

9. How does the author describe his mother's attitude toward men?

10. In Belleville, what does Aunt Pat do to protest the landlady's Herbert Hoover poster?

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