The Glass Castle Reading Quiz #7

After Rex gets into a "fight with the mountain," what does Jeanette have to do to help him?

• Stitch up a wound

• bail him out of jail

• set his broken leg

• take him to the hospital

Where did Jeanette get her lunches from at school?

• She got lunch for free

• Her mom packed a lunch

• She took them from the trash

• She stole them from the cafeteria

What does Jeanette discover at Carrie Mae Blakenship's house?

• Cable TV and VCR

• Dishwasher and toilet

• Cordless phone and answering machine

• Thermostat and furnace

Who died in Welch during a hard snowfall?

• Erma

• Rex

• Grandpa

• Uncle Stanley

How does Rosemary react when Jeanette tells her that Uncle Stanley groped her?

• Rosemary brushes her off.

• Rosemary reports Stanley.

• Rosemary accuses Jeannette of lying.

• Rosemary gets angry.

Ginnie Sue Pastor was thirty-three years old and had nine kids. What did she do to "put chicken on the table" for her family?

• She worked at Becker's Jewelry Store in Welch.

• She was a teacher's assistant at Welch Elementary.

• She was the town prostitute.

• She was the town gossip columnist and people paid big money for her stories.

What contraption do Brian and Jeannette make in an effort to fight back against Ernie Goad?

• a ballista made from parts of Rose Mary's sewing machine

• a trebuchet made from parts of Rex's old Prospector

• a guillotine made from scrap metal

• a catapult made from a mattress

Lori likes to read because she felt that books "transport you to another world." Jeannette loves books like The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. All of these books involve...

• people who murder their abusive parents

• people dealing with romance and heartbreak

• people dealing with hardships

• people who move to the big city to follow their dreams

"All we knew was that every couple of months, this check would show up and we'd have plenty of food for days at a time." Where did this windfall of money come from?

• An oil company leased drilling rights to Rose Mary's family land in Texas.

• An excavation company leased the mining rights to Rex's family land in West Virginia.

• Rose Mary's deceased mother had left a trust for the Walls kids; it was the interest on that money.

• It was Rose Mary's teaching pension from her years spent teaching out west.

What did Rose Mary suggest that Jeannette not "be so picky" about slicing off of a canned ham?

• the tough outer layer of fat

• the honey-glazed crust

• maggots

• bite marks