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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people does Father say they do not want to meet at the railyard?
(a) Guards.
(b) Police.
(c) Passengers.
(d) Hoboes.

2. What animal do Caroline's neighbors raise in Part Eight?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Horses.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Llamas.

3. What does Caroline spend a lot of her free time looking for in Part Eight?
(a) Information about where Susan and Paul have gone.
(b) Information about her biological mother.
(c) The cave where she left Father.
(d) A man who could be a father to her children.

4. What alerts the girls in the bathroom that something is wrong with Caroline in Part Seven?
(a) Her inability to stand.
(b) She is not making much sense when she talks.
(c) The bloody footprints.
(d) The place on the back of her head that she cut with the scissors.

5. In Father's camp, what made the scratches on the metal pipe?
(a) Handcuffs.
(b) The stones where the stove sat.
(c) Father's bracelets.
(d) The concrete blocks on the floor.

6. On page 147, when Caroline tells Father that she cannot feel her feet anymore, what does he say to her?
(a) "As long as you can keep on walking."
(b) "Frostbite is better than freezing to death."
(c) "That makes two of us."
(d) "Jump up and down. Get the blood moving."

7. What kind of structure do Caroline and Father eventually find when they are lost in the mountains?
(a) An abandoned house.
(b) A cabin.
(c) A cattle barn.
(d) A yurt.

8. What has Caroline built in the forest in Part Eight?
(a) A place to hide her journal and Father's notebook.
(b) A place to hide if people come looking for her.
(c) A shelter just like the one she shared with Father.
(d) A series of lookouts.

9. On page 200, Caroline quotes Emerson saying, "The way of life is wonderful." What is the next line of this quote?
(a) "We live more as we leave more behind."
(b) "Wild things are truly free."
(c) "Open spaces are where we can see life clearly."
(d) "It is by abandonment."

10. What body part is Caroline missing in Part Eight?
(a) A toe.
(b) A finger.
(c) Her appendix.
(d) Her eyebrows.

11. What kind of structure is Caroline living in in Part Eight?
(a) A cabin.
(b) A converted barn.
(c) A motel.
(d) A yurt.

12. In what city does Part Seven take place?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) Boise, Idaho.
(d) Seattle, Washington.

13. What does Caroline do to try to get her sister to recognize her in Part Seven?
(a) She calls her sister's name.
(b) She takes her hat off.
(c) She sings a song she used to sing her sister.
(d) She makes a silly hand sign they used to make to one another.

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

15. What does Caroline learn from Paul when they are outside?
(a) He and Susan are from San Francisco.
(b) He and Susan are on their way to Seattle.
(c) Susan is a criminal.
(d) Susan is not his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Caroline working, in Part Eight?

2. When it starts to snow, what does Caroline end up wearing on her feet?

3. Whom does Caroline refer to as "the Outlaws" (215)?

4. What is the name of the road that Caroline lives on in Part Eight?

5. What do Father and Caroline "borrow" from the cabin?

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