The Glass Castle Review

Which is not a place the Walls' lived?

• Welch

• Phoenix

• New York City

• Battle Mountain

• San Diego

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How do you spell the narrator's name?

• Jeanete

• Jeannette

• Jeannete

• Jeannete

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What did the Walls kids call their "escape fund?"

• The Emerald City

• Miss Piggy

• Oz

• Elvis

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Which one of the following characters is not considered an antagonist throughout the novel?

• Mental Illness

• Poverty

• The stairs

• Rex Walls

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Which of the following quotes represents an example of foreshadowing?

• “I’ll never get out of here,” Lori kept saying. “I’ll never get out of here.” “You will,” I said. “I swear it.” I believed she would. Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I.”

• “....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.”

• “If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

• “One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”

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What career did Jeannette pursue in New York City?

• writer

• journalist

• photographer

• artist, like her mother

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Who did Jeannette live with in NYC while in college?

• a photographer

• a psychologist

• her parents

• by herself

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What metaphor does "The Glass Castle" represent in the novel?

• empty promises from Rex Walls

• opportunity for the Walls' children to build up their lives

• The greatest house the Walls' family will ever own

• It's not a metaphor, it's a symbol

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In what city did the Walls' children live where they had the biggest problem with understanding the local dialect?

• Phoenix

• Battle Mountain

• Las Vegas

• Welch

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Which quote is an example of a "person vs. self" conflict we discussed?

• "ashamed of myself for wearing pearls and living on Park Avenue while my parents were busy keeping warm and finding something to eat."

• “Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”

• “She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”

• “No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”

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