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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Caroline and Paul do outside while Father and Susan talk?
(a) Sled.
(b) Have a snowball fight.
(c) Make an igloo.
(d) Explore.

2. What is a "wardhouse" as used in My Abandonment?
(a) A religious gathering place.
(b) A place where local government meets.
(c) The dormitory at a boarding school.
(d) A place where people vote.

3. What does Caroline notice about Susan and Paul's jewlery?
(a) She remembers it from somewhere.
(b) They are wearing a lot more jewelry than most people do.
(c) It is more expensive than she would expect.
(d) It is made of copper.

4. When Caroline is trying to fall asleep in the room with Susan and Paul, what does she realize about her and Father's situation?
(a) She dreamed about something similar when she still lived on the farm.
(b) They are un much more danger than Father realizes.
(c) It is very similar to the story she told Jean Bauer.
(d) It is almost exactly the same as Susan and Paul's situation.

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

6. When Father and Caroline get off the bus, where does Father say they will go?
(a) To Eugene.
(b) To a nearby cave.
(c) To Sisters.
(d) To his friends' cabin.

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

8. Where does Caroline meet Peg?
(a) At the grocery store.
(b) At the coffee shop.
(c) At the post office.
(d) At the library.

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

10. Why do Father and Caroline not stretch a tarp over the hot spring to trap its heat around them?
(a) The gasses from the spring are not safe in a confined space.
(b) The tarps are bright and easy to see from the sky.
(c) Father has lost the tarps.
(d) The heat from the spring will melt the tarp.

11. Why does Caroline spend time in the trees in Part Eight?
(a) She is watching for followers.
(b) She is keeping watch for fire.
(c) She is looking for the cave where Father is.
(d) She is looking at animals.

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

13. What does Caroline try to hide from Father on the morning that they are with Susan and Paul?
(a) Her tears when he tells her to go outside.
(b) Her sock is crusted with blood.
(c) She has candy in her pack.
(d) She has taken the Mammals book from the cabin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Caroline reading in Part Seven that she needs the dictionary for?

2. What is surprising about the way Susan and Paul are dressed?

3. What town do Father and Caroline come into when they are out of the mountains?

4. What can the reader infer from the way that Susan calls for Paul when he and Caroline are outside?

5. What do Susan and Paul have for breakfast?

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