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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 do to try to get her sister to recognize her in Part Seven?
(a) She calls her sister's name.
(b) She takes her hat off.
(c) She makes a silly hand sign they used to make to one another.
(d) She sings a song she used to sing her sister.

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

3. What does Susan warn Father not to trip over as he and Caroline come inside?
(a) Wires.
(b) Books.
(c) A pile of wood.
(d) Garbage bags.

4. Who are Roy and Sylvia?
(a) The people who run Bronco Billy's.
(b) Caroline's brother and sister.
(c) Father's friends that he says own the cabin.
(d) Caroline's foster parents.

5. What is unusual about Paul's speech?
(a) It is simple and repetitive.
(b) It is all questions and no statements.
(c) He speaks at an unnaturally loud level.
(d) He has a Southern accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Caroline tell the woman on the bus she is?

2. Why is Caroline confused on her walk to her old house?

3. Why does Caroline stop to talk to the girls playing softball in Part Eight?

4. What has Caroline built in the forest in Part Eight?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. Where is Caroline living in Part Eight?

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

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

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

9. What does Caroline do on the bus that makes Father paranoid?

10. What does the reader learn has happened to one of Caroline's toes?

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