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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 buy at the mall in Part Seven?

2. Who is Mr. Hoffman?

3. What is Caroline reading in Part Seven that she needs the dictionary for?

4. What forest is Caroline's home near?

5. What street did Caroline live on with her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Caroline do on the bus that makes Father paranoid?

2. Why does Caroline feel that Father is both missing and not missing?

3. What happens during Caroline's encounter with the two sisters in the mall bathroom?

4. When Caroline leaves her old house, where does she go next, and why?

5. When they are on the bus, what important message does Caroline try to tell Father, and how does he react?

6. What education has Caroline received since returning to Oregon?

7. Where does Caroline go after she leaves the cave?

8. What are the mixed feelings that Caroline has as she looks at her old house?

9. How does Caroline retain part of her wild nature in Part Eight?

10. When Caroline goes inside the yurt after Susan and Paul leave, what does she see?

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

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

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.

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