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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Part Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Valerie introduces Taffy to Caroline, what does Caroline ask her?
(a) What "Taffy" is short for.
(b) Whether her name embarrasses her.
(c) If that is her real name.
(d) Why her parents gave her such a weird name.

2. What does Caroline think about the academic test that she takes in the police training room?
(a) It is embarrassing.
(b) It is difficult.
(c) It is stupid.
(d) It is fun.

3. When Caroline tells Father that she likes living at the farm, what does he tell her?
(a) That she should not get used to living there, because it is not permanent.
(b) That appearances are deceptive and she should be as careful here as in the park.
(c) That getting her to like it is part of a surveillance plan.
(d) That she likes it because it reminds her of her first home.

4. What is Caroline reading in Part Seven that she needs the dictionary for?
(a) Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.
(b) The Mammals book.
(c) Father's notebook.
(d) "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

5. When she is riding in the police car, what does Caroline refuse to do because she doesn't "want them to think anything untrue" (53)?
(a) Tell them she is scared.
(b) Laugh or smile.
(c) Cry.
(d) Criticize Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father have nightmares about?

2. Whom is Father quoting when he says, on page 14, "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes"?

3. What special effort does Mr. Walter make to make Caroline feel at home?

4. What items from the truck is Caroline most interested in?

5. What fact does the reader learn about Caroline toward the end of Part Six?

(see the answer key)

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