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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 3, what does Father tell Caroline about the adult video store?
(a) That it is "full of deceit and misery."
(b) That it is "one of the reasons" they live as they do.
(c) That it is somewhere she "must never go."
(d) That it is a "snake store."

2. What does Father do at the Safeway while Caroline shops?
(a) Looks through the flyers on the bulletin board.
(b) Returns the cans and bottles they collect.
(c) Shaves in the bathroom.
(d) Talks with a stranger in the alley out back.

3. In what year does the story begin?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1999.

4. What surprises Caroline about her visit with the doctor?
(a) How much she has grown.
(b) That the doctor does not want to see her run.
(c) The doctor's concern about her eating habits.
(d) How kind the doctor is.

5. What special effort does Mr. Walter make to make Caroline feel at home?
(a) He asks some neighbor children over to meet her.
(b) He volunteers to take her to the library once a week.
(c) He tells her she can paint her room any color she likes.
(d) He helps her set up her own garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that Jean Bauer takes Caroline to do?

2. In what city do Father and Caroline live?

3. What items from the truck is Caroline most interested in?

4. What does Caroline think about the academic test that she takes in the police training room?

5. What does Father get irritated about Catherine doing in the library?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Father tell Caroline about his plans after they leave the men's camp?

2. When they return to the park, what does Father find in the hollow in the crook of the tree, and what do he and Caroline do with it?

3. What elaborate ritual do Caroline and Father have for sharing food in a way that does not alert people that they are together?

4. What does Valerie say she dislikes about Caroline, and what seems to be the real motivation for her hostility?

5. What do Father and Caroline find when they return to their house in Forest Park?

6. When Caroline and Father are leaving the ATM, they run into a man who knows Father. What name does the man call Father, and where does he seem to know him from?

7. At the end of Part Two, what two things does Jean Bauer give to Caroline, and how does she demonstrate that she has been listening to Caroline's complaints about her room?

8. The novel opens with Caroline reflecting that "There's nothing to do but keep walking, you have to be ready for everything" (3). What does this comment tell the reader about Caroline's state of mind?

9. How do Caroline and Father continue to show their love for animals in the way that they live?

10. Why does Caroline leave her encyclopedias behind when she is taken into state custody?

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