Characters
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Parts 4+5
100

Narrator of the story

Who is Jeannette

100
Jeannette's parents' feelings regarding society's rules
What are refusal to conform to them
100
How old Jeannette is when she gets burnt
What is 3
100
The way Erma differs from Grandma Smith
What is Erma is callous and rough, while Grandma Smith was very nurturing
100
How Jeannette describes her and Lori's first apartment together in New York
What is it is bigger than their entire house in Welch
200
Narrator's father
Who is Rex
200
basic needs Jeannette's family do not always provide
What are food and shelter
200

Why Jeannette enjoys staying in the hospital

What is it is quiet and not chaotic. There is food and gum.

200
The reason the children end up in special education classes
What is they can't understand the principal and don't answer his questions correctly
200

What Jeannette does about her schooling when she moves to New York

What is she works for a small publication

300
Narrator's mother
Who is Rose Mary
300
Jeannette's profession
What is a journalist
300
A home that Rex dreams of building for his family
What is the glass castle
300
Where Erma tells the children to go stay after the argument with Lori
What is the basement
300
The person who brings Rose Mary to Thanksgiving dinner
Who is Lori
400
Narrator's youngest sister
Who is Maureen
400
Where Jeannette lives in Part 1 of the book
What is Park Avenue
400
The reason Rex loses so many jobs
What is because he is an alcoholic.
400
How Jeannette's grandparents feel about her relationship with Dinitia
What is they don't like it because Dinitia is black
400

How the Thanksgiving guests remember Rex

What is as an important force in their lives.

500
Narrator's 2nd husband
Who is John
500
How Jeannette feels when she first sees her mom at the beginning of the book.
What is shame
500
The reason Jeannette enjoys staying with Grandma Smith
What is She provides a sense of stability and makes hot meals.
500
What the Walls new house in Part 3 is like
What is it is a very run-down one bedroom with no indoor plumbing
500
Where Rose Mary is living at the time of the Thanksgiving dinner
What is In the same abandoned apartment building that she and Rex had been squatting in for years.
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