The Glass Castle Flashcards
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Dad is known doing the ___________________
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skeddadle
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In the Battle of Little Hobart Street, the Brian and Jeannette fight against __________ and win.
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Ernie Goad
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In the opening section, what does Jeannette see her mom doing on a street in New York City?
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Picking thru the trash
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Jeannette and Brian dig a huge hole next to their house for Dad's ____________.
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Glass Castle
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Lori's reluctance to explore the outdoors and her interest in books arise from her ____________.
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bad eyesight
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The children, who often go hungry, discover that Mom is hiding a ____________ from them and eating it all by herself.
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Hershey's giant chocolate bar
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True or False? As an adult, Jeannette never comes to peace with her parents and their parenting style.
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False
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True or False? A whipping from Dad spurs Jeannette to start saving money as an \"escape fund.\"
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True
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True or False? Before Jeannette leaves for New York, Dad gives her a lucky rabbit's foot as a parting gift.
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False
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True or False? Jeannette and Ben find a diamond ring that Mom sells for five thousand dollars.
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False
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True or False? Through Jeannette's job on the school newspaper, she is astounded to learn about the outside world through a source other than her parents.
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True
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Wells compares her family to which two plants?
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Cactus and a Joshua tree
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What does Jeannette wish for on her tenth birthday?
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That her Dad would stop drinking
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When Dad \"gives\" each child a real star for Christmas, what is he teaching them?
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Material things don't matter
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When the Wells family arrive in Welch, they live ____________.
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With Erma, Dad's mother
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Where does Jeannette see her mother at the beginning of the work?
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Digging thru the trash
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What doll does Jeannette accidentally burn?
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Tinkerbell
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What is Jeannette's first memory?
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Being set on fire
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Why does Maureen get arrested?
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Stabbing her mother
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What are the names of Jeannette's three sisters?
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Lori, Maureen, and Mary Charlene
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What two addictions does Rex Walls suffer from?
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Gambling and drinking
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What does Rose Mary want to do for a living?
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Be an artist
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What does Rex take his children to the zoo to do?
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Pet the cheetah
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What does Jeannette try for the first time in the hospital?
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Chewing gum
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How does Jeannette cover up the holes in her pants?
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She colors in her skin with marker
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How does Jeannette increase sales of the school newspaper?
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She includes a birthday column
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When does Jeannette move to New York?
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After her junior year of high school
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Why is Dinitia arrested?
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She stabs her mother's boyfriend to death
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What is Rex always promising to build for his family to live in?
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A glass castle
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What is Rex's nickname for Jeannette?
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Mountain Goat
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Jeannette attends ____ College.
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Barnard
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What happens to the money the Walls children save in Oz, the piggy bank?
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Rex steals it
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What is the name of Jeannette's first husband.
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Eric
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Who is the Black girl Jeannettte befriends in Welch?
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Dinitia
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Where does Jeannette learn to swim?
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The Hot Pot
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What does Lori decide she wants to do as a career?
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Be an artist like her mom
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Which hero of Rex's visits Welch?
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Chuck Yeager
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What is the Green Lantern?
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A house of prostitution
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What type of restaurant does Lori work at in New York?
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A German restaurant
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What happens to Erma and Ted's house?
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It burns down
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What type of plant is Rose Mary fascinated by in the desert?
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A crooked Joshua tree
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How do the Walls children get along socially at their new school?
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The other children make fun of them and they get into fights.
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Where does Maureen spend most of her time during her adolescence?
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At friend's houses
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Why do the Welch children end up in special education classes?
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They can't understand the principal and don't answer his questions correctly.
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How does the Walls' financial situation improve for a time in Pheonix?
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They are getting money from mineral rights on the land in Texas.
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Rex dies during Part 4 as a result of:
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A heart attack
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Where does Jeannette attend college after?
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Barnard College, Columbia University's sister school
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What happens that saves Jeannette from having to drop out of school because of financial problems?
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Her father comes up with the money for her tuition.
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How does Jeannette help Dinitia's brother?
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She chases away a dog that is bothering him.
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The owner of the paper that Jeannette works for encourages her to do what?
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Go to college
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What causes the argument that ends in Rose Mary being dangled out of the window by her feet by Rex?
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Rex's being absent from the house while he is \"out making money.\"
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Since the Walls family cannot find a house they can afford to rent, what do they do instead?
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Buy a house
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How do Rose Mary and Rex react to the children's story about the incident between Erma and Brian?
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They side with Erma, saying the children should have behaved better.
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How does Jeannette learn to swim?
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Her father throws her into the water repeatedly until she swims.
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When Rex is able to get to the family's money, what does he spend it on?
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Alcohol and gambling
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Rose Mary hopes to do what while they are living in Phoenix?
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Open an art gallery.
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What does Jeannette find out about her mother's finances in Part 4 that surprises her?
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That her mother owns land that is worth over a million dollars and hasn't sold it.
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When Jeannette is sent out to get her father in Welch, where does she finally find him?
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At a bar
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What does Jeannette try to talk her mother into doing to make hers and the children's lives better?
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Leaving her father
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What is Jeannette's occupation in New York?
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Editor
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The family often lacks basic necessities, which is underscored by an incident in which Jeannette finds her sister, Lori, eating what?
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A stick of margarine with some sugar.
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What is Brian doing as he enters adolescence?
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He is getting into trouble and frequently involved in fights.
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How does Rex put Jeannette in a potentially dangerous situation?
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By having her \"entertain\" a man who he is playing pool with.
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Why does Rose Mary dislike her teaching job?
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Because teaching requires organization and discipline.
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After Jeannette gets a divorce, what type of life does she choose to live?
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A simpler life
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Doing a \"skedaddle,\" who does Rex say is after him rather than bill collectors?
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The FBI
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Who did the family stay with on occasion?
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Gramma Smith
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Jeannette compares her family to a..
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cactus
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Rex invented this to help him search for gold
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Prospector
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After Rex and Rose Mary come out of the Bar None Bar, what happens?
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Jeannette falls out of the car
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Who is Mary Charlene?
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Jeannette's dead sister
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The family lived in Las Vegas for a few months. Why did they leave?
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The blackjack dealer knew Rex was cheating
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What kind of tree doe Rose Mary focus on in this section?
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Joshua tree
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What was the topic of the fight Rex to chase Rose Mary through the desert with his car?
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How long she was pregnant
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What does Rex give his children for Christmas?
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Stars
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Because of traveling so much, Jeannette's father had a plan. What was it?
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To find gold
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What is Jeannette's father's name?
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Rex Walls
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What is Jeannette's younger brother's name?
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Brian Walls
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In the beginning of the book, how did Jeannette burn herself?
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Cooking a hot dog
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Who is Tinkerbell?
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Jeannette's favorite toy
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What did Jeannette's mother devote her time to a lot?
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Art
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What did Jeannette never believe in?
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Santa Claus
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What did Jeannette's father get Jeannette for Christmas considering that the Walls don't have much money?
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Venus (the planet)
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How many months was Jeannette's mom pregnant with her baby sister?
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12
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What name did Jeannette want to name her new baby sister?
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Rosita
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What is Jeannette's baby sister's real name?
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Lilly Ruth Maureen
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What is the name of the van the Walls drive everywhere?
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The Green Caboose
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Since the Walls were on a mission to find gold, Jeannette's dad found a place in northern Nevada called..
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Battle Mountain
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At Battle Mountain, what kind of job did Jeannette's father get?
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An electrician in a barite mine
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How did Jeanette get her scar?
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Cooking a hot dog
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Why did Jeanette's family leave Las Vegas?
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The Mafia was after her dad
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Where was Jeanette and Brian's favorite place to go while living at Battle Mountain?
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The Dump
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Why did Jeanete's mother choose the house in Phoenix?
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To start an art studio
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Why was Jeanette's father tied up and \"tortured\" for a short time?
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To stop drinking
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Why would Jeanette never stay home, even when she was sick?
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Warm classroom
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Who visited Jeanette's school when she was a junior at Welch High?
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Chuck Yeager
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Eric was Jeanette's first husband, but who was her second husband?
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John Taylor
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Did her family pay for her time in the hospital? If not, what did they do?
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No, they snuck her out of the hospital so they wouldn't have to pay
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What happened to Jeannette on her and her family's way to Las Vegas?
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They took a sharp turn around some rail road tracks, the car door flew open and she fell out.
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When Jeannette was in 1st grade, why did the 2 Mexican girls beat her up?
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Because she was tall, pale, skinny, and raised her had too fast when the teacher asked questions.
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What was Jeannettes favorite book?
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Black Beauty
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What was the ugliest pet that the Walls ever owned?
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A buzzer named Buster
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Where did the kids ride in the U-Haul when they were moving to Nevada?
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In the back of the U-haul, with the baby
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How did Jeannettes mother finally help bring in money for the family?
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She got a job and the middle school and taught Lori's class.
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Why was Jeannette glad they didn't have enough money to buy her class picture one year?
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Her mom put mayonnaise in her hair because she heard it's good for her hair, but didn't wash it out for the pictures
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What did Billy Deel do the day after Jeannette gave him his ring back?
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He went to where they lived and was shooting a BB gun at them.
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They could each bring one thing with them to Phoenix. What was Jeannette's one thing?
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A geode
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What did they find out about Grandma Smith when they were moving to Phoenix?
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That she had died
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What made Lori decide that she wanted to be an artist, just like her mom?
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She got glasses, and now she could see the world clearly
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What did Jeannettes dad buy on his first pay day in Phoenix?
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3 bicycles
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Who the Walls move in with when they moved to West Virginia?
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Rex's parents and uncle
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What did Jeannettes father make her do once after he had been in a fight?
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He made her sew stitches in a gash on his arm
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Why didn't Maureen have to dig throught the trash for food?
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She made friends throughout the neighborhood and showed up at their houses throughout dinner time.
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What did Jeannette and her brother and sisters fight over when it was cold at night?
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Their dogs, Tinkle and Pippin, because they were warm.
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What were their two dogs names?
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Tinkle and Pippin
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What did Lori say when her mom asked the kids if they had anything nice to say about their Grandma Erma when she died?
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\"Ding dong, the witch is dead\"
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What did her mom say when Jeannette tried to get her to leave her dad besides \"It's against the Catholic faith\"?
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\"I'm an excitement addict\"
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What did Jeannette do when she found out that it would cost 1200 dollars for braces?
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She made her own braces
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Who was Jeannette named after?
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She was named after her high school teacher, who was also her fathers English teacher, Jeanette Bivens.
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What was the name of the piggy bank Jeannette and Lori had to save up money to move to New York?
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Oz
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Why did her dad ruin Lori's clay bust of Shakespeare?
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Because he thought that Shakespeare was a fraud.
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What famous person did Jeannette interview for her school newspaper?
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Chuck Yeager
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What did Jeannettes dad give her before she got on the bus to New York?
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A jackknife
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How did Jeannette know her mom and dad had moved to New York before they had even told her?
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She heard on the radio about a van that had broken down on the New Jersey turnpike that had spilled clothes and furniture all over the road.
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Who is Jeanette's father?
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Rex Walls
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Who is Jeannette's mother?
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Rose Mary Walls
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Who is Jeannette's older sister?
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Lori Walls
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Who is Jeannette's younger brother?
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Brian Walls
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Who is Jeannette's younger sister?
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Maureen Walls
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Who is Rex Wall's mother?
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Erma
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The German restaurant Jeannette worked at...
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