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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. On page 94, what is the first question that Ben asks Caroline?

2. What is Caroline's favorite job on the farm?

3. After Clarence tells Father that it was stupid to come back to the park, what does Father tell Caroline?

4. What is clear about Caroline during the fight with Valerie?

5. Why does Jean Bauer tell Caroline that she will not need her encyclopedias anymore?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What elaborate ritual do Caroline and Father have for sharing food in a way that does not alert people that they are together?

3. What kind of psychological test does Jean Bauer run with the pictures?

4. Why does Caroline leave her encyclopedias behind when she is taken into state custody?

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

6. When they return to the park, what does Father find in the hollow in the crook of the tree, and what do he and Caroline do with it?

7. What is Caroline eager to tell Father once they are alone in Part Three, and how does he respond?

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

9. What surprises the child welfare workers about Caroline's physical and mental condition?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the significance of Father's status as a veteran. How does his service seem to have impacted him, to what extent does it drive the plot, and in what way does it comment on the fates of service members in the contemporary United States? Offer textual support for your ideas and cite your sources in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the blue ribbon that Caroline carries. Consider its provenance, what Caroline does with it, and how it deteriorates over the years as a part of your exploration of this symbol.

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