Quiz Questions from The Liars Club

A. Mary's relationship with her grandmother was not strong. Since the beginning Mary has always blamed her mother's Nervous on her grandmother. "I always associate my grandmother's house with mother's silence and the old woman's endless bossy prattle" (29). She never got along with her grandmother which is difficult for me to understand because I have always grown up close to my grandmothers and they have never been so hostile like Mary's grandmother. In the words that Mary writes you can tell her hatred for her grandmother, "Maybe it's wrong to blame the arrival of Grandma Moore for much of the worst hurt in my family, but she was such a ring tailed bitch that I do" (41). Mary's grandmother is suffering from cancer and that is why she has to come live with Mary's family. Right as her grandmother first moved into the house, she started criticizing everything about the family and what they did in that house.

She was an angry woman all the time. Mary and her family would eat meals on their parents bed, but since grandmother was there they had to eat at the table. Mary and Lecia were not allowed to run around naked when the heat was intolerable with clothes on, because grandmother was watching. Mary's grandmother was really into faith so she bought the two girls white leather bibles. Mary says that when her grandmother moved into the house "she brought with her that same kind of slightly deranged scrutiny" (44). Also on page 46, "Still, I remember not one tender feeling for her or from her" as Mary talks about how she feels towards her grandmother at the end of chapter 2. According to Mary's grandmother, "These children are being ruined!" This is when Mary's grandmother is going "batshit" over the braided whip. Her grandmother revealed to Mary that Lecia and her supposedly have a brother Tex and a sister Belinda that their mother never told them about.

B. The family runs from Leechfield because there was a class 4 hurricane headed toward where they lived. Mary, Lecia, their mother and grandmother were the ones in the car on the bridge going to their aunts house. Their father was staying at where he worked. When they first got on the bridge out of town, Mary's mother started singing the scariest part of "Mack the Knife" then the car went into a 360 degree spin. According to Lecia, they crashed into the railing because her mother was trying to get a hold of Mary in the back seat. That was the first time that Lecia gave any sign of affection in sisterly relationship to Mary by lacing her fingers between her sisters.