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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8: Part Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father have nightmares about?
(a) Helicopters.
(b) Being followed.
(c) The men's camp.
(d) Prison.

2. Why does Caroline stop to talk to the girls playing softball in Part Eight?
(a) She wants one of them to come and live with her.
(b) She is trying to make some friends.
(c) She wishes that she had a childhood where she could have played softball.
(d) She is romantically interested in one of the fathers.

3. Where is Caroline working, in Part Eight?
(a) The high school.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) The library.

4. How does Caroline describe Susan's appearance, on page 168?
(a) "Dozy, like a sleepy cow."
(b) "Blurred, like rain on window glass."
(c) "Sharp-faced. like a fox."
(d) "Alert like a squirrel in a tree."

5. Who is Mr. Hoffman?
(a) The father of one of the girls Caroline speaks to at the softball field.
(b) The owner of Bronco Billy's restaurant.
(c) The owner of the property where Caroline lives.
(d) One of Caroline's teachers at the community college.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Father and Caroline get off the bus, where does Father say they will go?

2. What does Caroline learn from Father's notebook?

3. What does Caroline learn from Paul when they are outside?

4. What is the only possession of Father's and Caroline's that is left in their old cave house?

5. In Father's camp, what made the scratches on the metal pipe?

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