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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 public landmark can Caroline see from the lookout?
2. What new item does Father give Caroline right before they leave the house for their "trip"?
3. Where is the first place that Father and Caroline go when they leave the farm?
4. What is in Father's oilskin holder?
5. In what year does the story begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. The novel opens with Caroline reflecting that "There's nothing to do but keep walking, you have to be ready for everything" (3). What does this comment tell the reader about Caroline's state of mind?
2. What arrangement have the social services people come to with Mr. Walters?
3. In the beginning of the book, what activity are Caroline and Father engaged in, and why?
4. What happens when Caroline tries to get to sleep on the first night in the house on the farm, and what is her solution?
5. When they are walking back home on the night when the story begins, what animal does Father tell Caroline to look at, and why?
6. What is Caroline eager to tell Father once they are alone in Part Three, and how does he respond?
7. Describe Randy's appearance.
8. Why does Caroline leave her encyclopedias behind when she is taken into state custody?
9. What does Clarence tell Father when Father and Caroline find the men's camp?
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 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 2
One of the thematic motifs in My Abandonment is the difference between appearances and reality. Write an essay that explores how Father and Caroline's characters and the events of the story reveal the book's preoccupation with the difference between the way things seem and the way they really are. Offer textual support for your claims, and if you use outside sources, be sure to credit them in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that examines the book's messages about family. Caroline was taken from one family by Father in an attempt to build himself a family. While she lives with Father, Caroline meets the Skeleton Family and Susan and Paul. And, by the end of the book, Caroline is thinking ahead to either having children of her own or recruiting a younger girl to recreate the kind of family she had with Father. Consider all of these elements as you make and defend a claim about what My Abandonment is saying about what constitutes family and what the purpose of family is.
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