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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 is surprising about the way Susan and Paul are dressed?
(a) They do not have any cold-weather clothing.
(b) They are each wearing several shirts and several pairs of pants.
(c) They are wearing power company uniforms.
(d) They are wearing long white robes.

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

3. What kind of people does Father say they do not want to meet at the railyard?
(a) Hoboes.
(b) Guards.
(c) Police.
(d) Passengers.

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

5. In Part Eight, Caroline gets her GED. Which is the best description of what this is?
(a) A permit that allows a minor to work full time.
(b) A high-school equivalency diploma.
(c) A document that allows a minor to live independently.
(d) A test taken to qualify for college.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Caroline is trying to fall asleep in the room with Susan and Paul, what does she realize about her and Father's situation?

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

3. Why do Father and Caroline not stretch a tarp over the hot spring to trap its heat around them?

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 hanging on one wall of Caroline's home in Part Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Caroline doing with her journal and Father's notebook?

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

3. What features of Paul's does Caroline notice and find unusual?

4. When Paul falls from the sled and Caroline comes up the hill to find him, what does she see, and what does Susan tell her is happening?

5. Who is Melody, and why does Caroline leave her a note?

6. What does Caroline do after she finds Father, and why?

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

8. When they are on the bus, what important message does Caroline try to tell Father, and how does he react?

9. What does the condition of Caroline's feet tell the reader about her?

10. How does Caroline support herself in Part Eight?

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