"The Glass Castle" pages 70-80 Pop-Quiz

When Brian and Jeannette went dumpster diving, what food and snack did they find and pig-out on?

• cabbages

• loose chocolates

• rotten ham with maggots crawling on it

• pinto beans

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What was Rosemary’s plan to make sure Maureen had special treatment and nice clothes?

• to buy patterns and sew Maureen couture items

• to stock up on bargains at the thrift store

• to shoplift by hiding dresses under her raincoat

• to mend and freshen up Lori and Jeannette’s hand-me-downs

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What does Dad use to “really light up Christmas,”?

• some of Jeannette’s matches from her match collection

• a brass cigarette lighter from the 1920s in the shape of a Scottish terrier

• his own lit and smoldering cigarette

• one of Rose Mary’s paintings he’d set on fire

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What did Jeannette ask for on the occasion of her tenth birthday?

• She asks for a party and to invite a few school friends.

• She asks for a homemade cake; Rose Mary has never made her one.

• She asks for a new dictionary so she and Rex can look up big words and their meanings.

• She asks that Rex stop drinking.

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Following Rex's short period of sobriety, which of the following causes him to fall back into his old patterns and habits?

• the sympathy given by the older woman who picked up the Walls family while they were hitchhiking

• Rose Mary’s constant complaining that they never seem to have any money

• Rose Mary’s constant complaining that she has to go teach school when she hates it

• getting fired from another job because the electricians’ union was corrupt

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As the Walls family prepares to leave Phoenix, why do you think Rex may have been skeptical and hesitant about revisiting his old home and family in Welch, West Virginia?

• He was afraid he wouldn’t be able to find work in the area.

• He knew that Welch was a poor mining town and he didn’t want to be associated with poverty.

• He knew that his family there was very dysfunctional and the root of many of his own addictions.

• He was fearful that Rose Mary would find someone better there to take care of her and love her.

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How do Rex and Rosemary work up a scheme to get more money?

• They hold an online auction for Rose Mary’s paintings but never mail them.

• Rex goes into a bank to take out money while Rosemary goes to the window and takes it out there.

• They take their kids to the bar and let strangers dance with them for money.

• They make Lori run a tutoring business and take the money she earns.

What does Rose Mary tell the kids to do after Rex comes home drunk and destroys the house?

• She says to leave the mess so he can see what he’s done.

• She says to clean up the mess so he doesn’t see it in the morning and get angry.

• She says to hide from him.

• She says to call the police when he gets violent.

What does Rex argue with the preacher about at Christmas mass?

• He argues that Mary was not a virgin.

• He argues that God is not real and the preacher is in the mob.

• He argues that the preacher is keeping the money people pass around in offering trays.

• He argues that Jesus would not like organized religion.

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