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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. What does Caroline say about menstruation?
(a) That it means a woman is old enough to breed.
(b) That she does not want it to happen to her.
(c) That it is perfectly natural and all female mammals do it.
(d) That it is disgusting and she does not want to think about it.

2. Why does Father think that it was his fault that they got caught?
(a) They stayed in the last camp too long.
(b) He should have taught Caroline to be more careful.
(c) They did not hide their house well enough.
(d) He went to town too often that last week.

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

4. On their first morning back in the park, what does Father suggest they do with Caroline's hair?
(a) Find a way to brush and braid it.
(b) Bleach it blonde.
(c) Hide it under a hat.
(d) Cut it short like his.

5. What is the only possession of Father's and Caroline's that is left in their old cave house?
(a) The green Coleman stove.
(b) The tea kettle.
(c) The mattress.
(d) Caroline's encyclopedias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of building is the Father and Caroline's new house?

2. In Part Four, what do Caroline and Father find has happened to their house?

3. What does Jean Bauer tell Caroline about going to regular school?

4. What is Caroline's favorite job on the farm?

5. What does Father have nightmares about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of psychological test does Jean Bauer run with the pictures?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Describe Randy's appearance.

6. What happens when Caroline tries to get to sleep on the first night in the house on the farm, and what is her solution?

7. What is Caroline eager to tell Father once they are alone in Part Three, and how does he respond?

8. When they get close to their cave home, how do Father and Caroline change the way they are walking, and why?

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

10. When they are walking back home on the night when the story begins, what animal does Father tell Caroline to look at, and why?

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