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

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

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

4. What does Caroline think she sees at the side of the road when she turns her head to keep the snow out of her eyes?
(a) A blue bike.
(b) Lala.
(c) Nameless.
(d) A bear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Caroline dispose of Father's body?

2. Where is Caroline working, in Part Eight?

3. What kind of structure do Caroline and Father eventually find when they are lost in the mountains?

4. On page 143, what does Caroline write in the fog on the bus window?

5. Why do Father and Caroline go to the railyard?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Caroline leaves her old house, where does she go next, and why?

2. What happens to cause Caroline to decide against approaching Della?

3. What natural feature do Caroline and Father stumble across, and how does it save them?

4. What does Father tell Caroline about traveling south, and what actually happens when they go south?

5. Where does Caroline go after she leaves the cave?

6. What happens during Caroline's encounter with the two sisters in the mall bathroom?

7. What happens when Father tries to hop a train, and what does Caroline learn from the event?

8. What do Father and Caroline do once they reach Sisters?

9. What is ironic about Father telling Caroline "Trust me" when he decides that they should trek back into the mountains instead of getting the motel room that Caroline suggests (164)?

10. Why does Caroline feel that Father is both missing and not missing?

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