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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Caroline go to Adams School in Part Seven?
(a) To see her old teacher.
(b) To replace her dictionary.
(c) To get more paper for her journal.
(d) To find Della.

5. Where is Caroline working, in Part Eight?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) The high school.
(d) The library.

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

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

8. What is the name of the road that Caroline lives on in Part Eight?
(a) Hill View.
(b) Pioneer.
(c) Wildwing.
(d) Adams.

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

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

11. Why does Caroline go into the bathroom at the mall?
(a) To cut her hair.
(b) To check on her painful feet.
(c) To hide from mall security.
(d) To see the woman she thinks she recognizes.

12. What does Caroline learn from Father's notebook?
(a) That she is not his biological child.
(b) The sources of his ideas.
(c) That Della is not her biological sister.
(d) That her mother is really alive.

13. What is Caroline reading in Part Seven that she needs the dictionary for?
(a) "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Father's notebook.
(d) The Mammals book.

14. Why does Caroline go to Pioneer Cemetery in Part Seven?
(a) To say a prayer for Father.
(b) To find a place to hide for the night.
(c) To see the family burial plot.
(d) To see her mother's grave.

15. When they get into the water of the hot spring, what warning does Father give Caroline about the water?
(a) To get out if she feels sleepy.
(b) To move her head where she will breathe less of its gasses.
(c) Not to let it get in her ears.
(d) Not to get her head wet.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. On page 147, when Caroline tells Father that she cannot feel her feet anymore, what does he say to her?

4. What does Caroline buy at the mall in Part Seven?

5. What kind of people does Father say they do not want to meet at the railyard?

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