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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 do the details of the marks left by Caroline's bike tires and her needing to push her bike the last half mile home emphasize?
(a) She still loves to ride a bike.
(b) Her moral objection to cars.
(c) Her stubbornness.
(d) She lives in an isolated spot.

2. On page 199, what criticism does Caroline make of her family?
(a) "They are the kind of people who do not understand about nature and how to be free."
(b) The "things they believe are unbelievable."
(c) "I know that they always loved Della more than me."
(d) They "follow rules just to follow them."

3. How old was Caroline when Father abducted her?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

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

5. Why does Caroline not buy new shoes in Part Seven?
(a) Father bought her the sneakers she is wearing.
(b) She cannot find a shoe store.
(c) She does not realize she needs them until she is outside of town again.
(d) She is trying to save money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are the people that Caroline encounters when she is on her way down the mountain in Part Six?

3. What does Caroline do to try to get her sister to recognize her in Part Seven?

4. What is unusual about the structure where Father and Caroline meet Susan?

5. In Father's camp, what made the scratches on the metal pipe?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Caroline is finally alone in the cave, watching the fire, what does she finally allow herself to think about?

2. What is ironic about the feeling Caroline shares about grocery shopping in the beginning of Part Six?

3. Once Caroline has returned to the place where Father held her captive after abducting her, how does she feel about Father and the past four years?

4. How do Caroline's purchases in Boise foreshadow her plans?

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

6. 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)?

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

8. What do Father and Caroline do when traveling by train does not work out?

9. What are the mixed feelings that Caroline has as she looks at her old house?

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

(see the answer keys)

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