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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 spend a lot of her free time looking for in Part Eight?
2. What kind of people does Father say they do not want to meet at the railyard?
3. What promise does Caroline remind Father of as they walk farther and farther into the mountains in Part Six?
4. On page 200, Caroline quotes Emerson saying, "The way of life is wonderful." What is the next line of this quote?
5. What is Caroline reading in Part Seven that she needs the dictionary for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What education has Caroline received since returning to Oregon?
2. Where is Caroline living in Part Eight?
3. What do Father and Caroline do once they reach Sisters?
4. When Caroline goes inside the yurt after Susan and Paul leave, what does she see?
5. Why does Caroline feel that Father is both missing and not missing?
6. What do Father and Caroline do when traveling by train does not work out?
7. What is ironic about Father telling Caroline "Trust me" when he decides that they should trek back into the mountains instead of getting the motel room that Caroline suggests (164)?
8. How do Caroline's purchases in Boise foreshadow her plans?
9. Where does Caroline go after she leaves the cave?
10. Who is Melody, and why does Caroline leave her a note?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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