Cities
Where did the Walls family spend the longest amount of time besides New York?
Welch
Growing up, who was Jeannette closest to?
Brian
Who said, "“Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour,” she’d ask us, “when in the same amount of time. I can do a painting that will last forever?”
Rose Mary
“I was nearly six feet tall, pale as a frog’s underbelly, and had bright red hair.”
What literary device is this an example of?
Simile
Rex gives Jeannette this as a present when she is 5 years old in the desert.
Venus
Rose Mary inherited a house from her mother in which city?
Phoenix, Arizona
How did Jeanette get food when there was none in the house?
Who said, "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you’ll still have your stars.”
Rex
“My arms flailed around, and I sank into the hot, smelly water.”
What literary device is this an example of?
Imagery
RoseMary is often hopeful and confident about the future. This word describes her mindset.
Optimistic
When the family is living in Phoenix, what do Jeannette and Brian hunt at night with a hatchet and a baseball bat?
Perverts
What did Jeannette go to the hospital for?
Burns from cooking hotdogs
¨You know, it's not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do¨
Brian
Rex forces Brian to give Ginger his Sad Sack comic book – the one he got for his birthday; she cannot read.
What literary device is this an example of?
Irony
When the family would up and move to a new city, Rex called it ______
The Skedaddle
What does Rex Walls say the hole in the backyard at Little Hobart Street in Welch is for?
To build the foundation for the Glass Castle
True or False: Jeannette got a full-time journalism job at the age of eighteen.
True
Who said, “I can not only see the tree, but I can see the individual leaves”
Lori
“After ducking down in the taxi so Mom wouldn’t see me, I hated myself—hated my antiques, my clothes, and my apartment.”
What literary device is this an example of?
Parallel Structure
True or False: When Rex came home drunk and made complete messes, Rose Mary insisted that the children leave the mess alone and not clean it up for him.
True
In what city did Jeannette see her mother digging in the dumpster at the beginning of the book?
New York City
What did Jeannette ask her father for, for her 10th birthday?
To stop drinking
Who said, “You’ve got to get right back in the saddle. You can’t live in fear of something as basic as fire.”
Rose Mary
“This isn’t exactly the Garden of Eden.”
What literary device is this an example of?
Allusion
Rose Mary receives monthly checks from this asset
Land in Texas