1. Is Val home when her mother knocks on the door? Yes No

2. Is Val happy to see her mother? Yes No

3. When Laura is at Val's house, Val asks about Laura's mother. What is Laura's response? she's estranged from her mother her mother lives in Fresno her mother died when she was twelve she never knew her mother

4. What did Val want to serve the neighbors when everyone comes over for dessert? apple pie German chocolate cake ice cream sundaes fritters

5. What do Val's guests think of the dessert that she serves? they all ask for the recipe they love it they don't like it nobody comes over

6. What memory does Ginger have of her mother? her mother didn't want her to marry Kenny being forced to have an abortion her mother's funeral sharing a tea party as a child

7. What does Karen's memory of her mother prompt her to do? write her mother a letter nothing remember why she doesn't like her mother phone her mother

8. To Val, what was the most upsetting thing that Lilimae did? turned her and baby Lucy away when they needed help left Val when she was little to pursue her musical career didn't have a successful musical career made Val go to her grandmother's after her father died

9. Lilimae thinks that Val resents her because Lilimae never became famous. True False

10. What did Lilimae leave behind for Val? a dress a mess a doll a note