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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. Where is the first place that Father and Caroline go when they leave the farm?

2. What is the first thing that Jean Bauer takes Caroline to do?

3. Besides Randy, what does Caroline carry everywhere?

4. Where does Caroline say Father's monthly checks come from?

5. Who is "Chainsaw"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is "Vincent," and why does Caroline object to Father working with him?

2. When they get close to their cave home, how do Father and Caroline change the way they are walking, and why?

3. Describe Randy's appearance.

4. What does Caroline remember when she is riding in the police car?

5. How do Caroline and Father continue to show their love for animals in the way that they live?

6. When they are walking back home on the night when the story begins, what animal does Father tell Caroline to look at, and why?

7. What comparison does Father make in the question he asks the officers who are driving him and Caroline to the farm?

8. What does Father tell Caroline about his plans after they leave the men's camp?

9. What does Valerie say she dislikes about Caroline, and what seems to be the real motivation for her hostility?

10. What happens when Mr. Walters tells Father the work he wants him to do on Father's first day of work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that considers the rhetorical purpose of including Valerie and Taffy in this story. How do they impact Caroline's growth, what do they represent, and what do they reveal about Caroline's character? Be sure to support your claims with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the book's stance on education. What kinds of things can and should make up a person's education? What is the value of education, and what happens when it is lacking? Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Is Caroline's fantasy about recruiting first her sister Della and later one of the girls from the softball team in Sisters just that--a harmless fantasy--or do you believe that Caroline, like Father, will eventually act on her need to recruit someone else into her solitary lifestyle? Write an essay that uses textual evidence to defend a claim about Caroline's desire to recruit a younger girl into her lifestyle.

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