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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 does Caroline think about the academic test that she takes in the police training room?
2. What does Jean Bauer tell Caroline about going to regular school?
3. What do Father and Caroline end up building with the wire Caroline brings home?
4. What items from the truck is Caroline most interested in?
5. What is unusual about Father's and Caroline's watches?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What happens when Mr. Walters tells Father the work he wants him to do on Father's first day of work?
3. What does Clarence tell Father when Father and Caroline find the men's camp?
4. When they are walking back home on the night when the story begins, what animal does Father tell Caroline to look at, and why?
5. When they get close to their cave home, how do Father and Caroline change the way they are walking, and why?
6. Describe the place where Caroline and Father have been sleeping for a while by the end of Part Four.
7. What seems to be happening to Father while they are living in the house, and what textual details support this interpretation?
8. How do Caroline and Father continue to show their love for animals in the way that they live?
9. What happens when Caroline tries to get to sleep on the first night in the house on the farm, and what is her solution?
10. What is the symbolic significance of Caroline's and Father's watches?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Peter Rock has said in interviews that he has conflicted feelings about writing a book based on the true story of the father and daughter found living in Forest Park. Research interviews in which he discusses these feelings and then write an essay that demonstrates how the portrayal of the media and of other characters in the book reflects Rock's divided feelings about the potential for exploitation of people like Father and Caroline. Be sure to offer textual evidence for your claims and cite your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the symbolic value of the toy horse, Randy, in My Abandonment. Be sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the rhetorical purpose and significance of the word definitions that are included in My Abandonment. Use textual evidence, including quoted material, to support your ideas.
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