Welch the Glass Castle

Which is not a place the Walls' lived?

• Welch

• Phoenix

• New York City

• Battle Mountain

• San Diego

How do you spell the narrator's name?

• Jeanete

• Jeannette

• Jeannete

• Jeannete

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

• The Emerald City

• Miss Piggy

• Oz

• Elvis

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

• Mental Illness

• Poverty

• The stairs

• Rex Walls

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.”

What career did Jeannette pursue in New York City?

• writer

• journalist

• photographer

• artist, like her mother

Who did Jeannette live with in NYC while in college?

• a photographer

• a psychologist

• her parents

• by herself

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

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

What is Jeannette's earliest memory, known as a flashback?

• driving her father around in the Blue Goose

• wishing on a star under the Joshua tree

• her first pair of ballet slippers

• being on fire