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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Caroline not buy new shoes in Part Seven?
(a) She cannot find a shoe store.
(b) She does not realize she needs them until she is outside of town again.
(c) Father bought her the sneakers she is wearing.
(d) She is trying to save money.

2. What do Caroline and Father eat during the night they spend at the hot spring?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Apricots.
(d) Almonds.

3. What street did Caroline live on with her family?
(a) Crescent.
(b) Crispin Lake.
(c) Dalhouse.
(d) Hill View.

4. When they get to the bus station, what does Father tell Caroline to buy?
(a) A one-way ticket to Bend, Oregon.
(b) A round-trip ticket to Bend, Oregon.
(c) A one-way ticket to Sisters, Oregon.
(d) A round-trip ticket to Sisters, Oregon.

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

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

7. On page 199, what criticism does Caroline make of her family?
(a) "I know that they always loved Della more than me."
(b) The "things they believe are unbelievable."
(c) They "follow rules just to follow them."
(d) "They are the kind of people who do not understand about nature and how to be free."

8. When Caroline and Father leave the grocery store in Part Six, what does Caroline suggest they do?
(a) Go back to the cabin in the mountains.
(b) Go back to Forest Park.
(c) Go back to the farm.
(d) Get a motel room.

9. What is surprising about the way Susan and Paul are dressed?
(a) They do not have any cold-weather clothing.
(b) They are wearing power company uniforms.
(c) They are wearing long white robes.
(d) They are each wearing several shirts and several pairs of pants.

10. How old does Caroline tell the woman on the bus she is?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

11. What does Caroline say in Part Seven that all of her problems come from?
(a) People trying to make her live like someone she is not.
(b) Father.
(c) Modern civilization.
(d) Believing things that are not true.

12. What do the details of the marks left by Caroline's bike tires and her needing to push her bike the last half mile home emphasize?
(a) She lives in an isolated spot.
(b) Her stubbornness.
(c) Her moral objection to cars.
(d) She still loves to ride a bike.

13. On the morning after their night at the hot spring, what does Father say when they see the river?
(a) They can make a raft.
(b) They will need to make a bridge.
(c) It will be much colder than the hot spring.
(d) They can catch fish.

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

15. What does Caroline fear might be true about her sister, in Part Seven?
(a) That she will be angry at Caroline.
(b) That she will refuse to accept Caroline's identity.
(c) That she was happy when Caroline left.
(d) That she is not her biological sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 200, Caroline quotes Emerson saying, "The way of life is wonderful." What is the next line of this quote?

2. On page 151, what does Caroline say looks like "porcupine quills" around Father's mouth?

3. How does Caroline describe Susan's appearance, on page 168?

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

5. Why do Father and Caroline not stretch a tarp over the hot spring to trap its heat around them?

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