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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the details of Caroline scratching words into leaves, looking for the "criminals," and shouting for Lala imply?
2. What does Caroline get angry at Jean Bauer for when Jean talks about sticks leaping up and stones rolling uphill?
3. What new item does Father give Caroline right before they leave the house for their "trip"?
4. What does Father have nightmares about?
5. On page 94, what is the first question that Ben asks Caroline?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Caroline leave her encyclopedias behind when she is taken into state custody?
2. Describe the place where Caroline and Father have been sleeping for a while by the end of Part Four.
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. What privileges has Caroline earned as she has gotten older?
5. What surprises the child welfare workers about Caroline's physical and mental condition?
6. What comparison does Father make in the question he asks the officers who are driving him and Caroline to the farm?
7. What does Clarence tell Father when Father and Caroline find the men's camp?
8. When Caroline is in state custody, which character that Caroline already knows turns out to be her roommate, and what surprises Caroline about the girl's behavior?
9. What elaborate ritual do Caroline and Father have for sharing food in a way that does not alert people that they are together?
10. What do Father and Caroline find when they return to their house in Forest Park?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that compares and contrasts the attitudes Jean Bauer and Mr. Walters display toward Caroline. Use textual evidence to defend your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that explicates the final four paragraphs of My Abandonment. Explain what Caroline literally means, how this passage functions on a figurative level, and what the passage adds to the book's overall meaning. Support your claims with textual evidence, at least some of which should be quoted.
Essay Topic 3
Choose one of the "three-named men"--Emerson, Rousseau, or Thoreau--and write an essay that connects their ideas to the characters, events, and themes of My Abandonment. Use textual support to defend your claims and cite outside sources in MLA format.
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