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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henny say she would like to do to Sam?

2. What reason does Sam give for his marriage to Henny?

3. What does Henny complain about?

4. What is Louie like when her parents are gone?

5. What does Norman Collyer tell Henny her trouble is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Sam's relationship with Colonel Willets?

2. Describe the opening scene of 'The Man Who Loved Children'.

3. Describe Henny's letter from her brother, Norman Collyer.

4. Describe Henny's relationship with relation to the children?

5. What is the financial state of the Pollit household?

6. How does the narrator characterize Sam?

7. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

8. What does Louie do at Beulah's house?

9. Describe Sam and Henny's conversation at the end of Chapter 4.

10. What news does Jo bring when she comes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate your own reading of 'The Man Who Loved Children'. Did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

What stories does this story echo? How does this story resolve differently from Snow White? What makes 'The Man Who Loved Children' unique in its presentation of the familiar story of a girl who doesn't get along with her step-mother?

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