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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. Who is Billy Deel?
2. How does Jeannette learn to swim?
3. Why does Rex tell his family that he has lost his job?
4. What is the glass castle?
5. How has Rose Mary reacted to previous offers of help from her children?
Short Essay Questions
1. What incident precipitates the family's leaving Battle Mountain for Phoenix?
2. Why does Jeannette ask the cab driver to go back to the apartment after she sees her mother from afar in Part 1?
3. Rose Mary and Jeannette have very different views of the world. Why does Rose Mary tell Jeannette that her values are "all confused"?
4. How is the accident when Jeannette gets burned symbolic of her childhood as a whole?
5. What are some of the unorthodox ways that the Walls parents get money and items for the house?
6. What does Grandma Smith provide for Jeannette that she doesn't get at home?
7. "The Glass Castle" is the author's story of the unusual, and some would say tragic, circumstances of her childhood. What is the author's tone as she tells her story? How does this reflect who she is as a person?
8. What is life like for the Walls children when they first move to Phoenix?
9. Why does the Walls family frequently pack up and move in the middle of the night?
10. What are Rex's feelings about how the family finances should be handled? How does he manage money?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Life is hard for the Walls family wherever they go. However, in different places it is hard in different ways. Compare their lives in Phoenix, Battle Mountain, and Welch, answering each of the following questions about each location:
1) What are the family's basic living conditions like?
2) What is Rose Mary's emotional condition like and how does it affect the rest of the family?
3) Discuss Rex's emotional condition as well.
Essay Topic 2
Rose Mary tells Jeannette, as an adult, that her values are "all confused." What does Rose Mary mean?
1) How does Rose Mary view Jeannette's life and career?
2) What are Rose Mary's values like and how do Jeannette's differ?
3) What values or ideas do you think that they agree on? What is important to both of them?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the book, Rex has difficulty holding a job and fully realizing his responsibilities, yet he does love his children and expresses it as best he can. Describe the dysfunctional yet caring relationship between this father and his children. Discuss examples of both times he failed his children, as well as and in which he was able to 'come through' or express his love for them in a meaningful way.
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