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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What town do Father and Caroline come into when they are out of the mountains?
(a) Bend, Oregon.
(b) Vancouver, British Columbia.
(c) Eugene, Oregon.
(d) Sisters, Oregon.

2. How old was Caroline when Father abducted her?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

3. Whom does Caroline refer to as "the Outlaws" (215)?
(a) Herself and Father.
(b) The local high-schoolers.
(c) The girls playing softball.
(d) The orange-clad road crew.

4. 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) Her moral objection to cars.
(b) She still loves to ride a bike.
(c) She lives in an isolated spot.
(d) Her stubbornness.

5. What new way is Father trying to disguise himself at the beginning of Part Five?
(a) He is wearing black eyeglass frames.
(b) He has shaved off his beard.
(c) He has bartered for a black backpack.
(d) He has dyed his hair.

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

7. Which animals does Caroline say are her favorites?
(a) The ones that live far away from people.
(b) The ones that do not eat other animals.
(c) The ones that change color with the seasons.
(d) The ones that make clever homes to live in.

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

9. Why does Susan's hair look different to Caroline when she comes outside to find Paul?
(a) She has cut it short.
(b) She has dyed it a new color.
(c) She has slicked it back with something greasy.
(d) She is wearing a second wig.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Caroline want to tell her sister in Part Seven?
(a) That she loves her.
(b) To take care of herself.
(c) A message for their parents.
(d) Her new name.

15. Where does Caroline dispose of Father's body?
(a) In a brush shelter.
(b) On a lookout that she builds.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In a crevasse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the structure where Father and Caroline meet Susan?

2. What does Caroline do to try to get her sister to recognize her in Part Seven?

3. As Caroline heads away with Father in the sled, what does she start to have second thoughts about?

4. When Father and Caroline get off the bus, what reason does he give for it being colder than it was in Portland?

5. What is a "wardhouse" as used in My Abandonment?

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