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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Six, when Caroline goes inside to find Father hurt, what indication is there that he is not yet dead?
(a) He tries to raise his hand.
(b) She can feel shallow breathing.
(c) He speaks to her.
(d) He jerks and kicks his leg.

2. What is Caroline studying at the community college?
(a) Library science.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Forestry.
(d) Creative writing.

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

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

5. What does Susan warn Father not to trip over as he and Caroline come inside?
(a) A pile of wood.
(b) Books.
(c) Garbage bags.
(d) Wires.

6. When she finds Father injured, why does Caroline have a hard time moving him?
(a) He is still in contact with a live wire.
(b) He is too heavy.
(c) He is struggling against her.
(d) There is a heavy shelf on top of him.

7. Besides the wet weather, what other reason does Father give Caroline for not being able to start a fire in Part Five?
(a) People might see the smoke.
(b) They do not have matches.
(c) They might start a forest fire.
(d) They need to keep moving.

8. Why is Caroline confused on her walk to her old house?
(a) She has not eaten.
(b) The city has changed a lot.
(c) She is exhausted.
(d) There is a blizzard.

9. As Caroline heads away with Father in the sled, what does she start to have second thoughts about?
(a) Whether she can make it to town on her own.
(b) Whether taking him into town is a good idea.
(c) Whether Susan is responsible for what happened to Father.
(d) Whether Father really is alive.

10. What do Susan and Paul have for breakfast?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) Water.
(c) Tang.
(d) Toast.

11. What promise does Caroline remind Father of as they walk farther and farther into the mountains in Part Six?
(a) That he would take her somewhere warmer.
(b) That he would always keep her safe.
(c) That he would never steal anything again.
(d) That he would let her go to school.

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

13. On page 151, what does Caroline say looks like "porcupine quills" around Father's mouth?
(a) His cracked and frostbitten skin.
(b) The bristles where his beard is getting long.
(c) The frozen water in his beard.
(d) His fingers where he is cradling his chin.

14. In Part Five, where does Father tell the bus driver that he and Caroline are coming from?
(a) Portland.
(b) Tacoma.
(c) Vancouver.
(d) Seattle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Caroline living in Part Eight?

2. Why does Caroline stop to talk to the girls playing softball in Part Eight?

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

4. What new way is Father trying to disguise himself at the beginning of Part Five?

5. 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?

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