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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. When Caroline and Father leave the grocery store in Part Six, what does Caroline suggest they do?

2. What does Caroline spend a lot of her free time looking for in Part Eight?

3. On page 146, what does Father say when Caroline says that she is cold?

4. What does Caroline want to tell her sister in Part Seven?

5. What does Caroline learn from Paul when they are outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the feeling Caroline shares about grocery shopping in the beginning of Part Six?

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

3. What happens to cause Caroline to decide against approaching Della?

4. What is Caroline doing with her journal and Father's notebook?

5. When Caroline is finally alone in the cave, watching the fire, what does she finally allow herself to think about?

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

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

8. In what sense are Susan and Father similar?

9. Once Caroline has returned to the place where Father held her captive after abducting her, how does she feel about Father and the past four years?

10. What do Father and Caroline do when traveling by train does not work out?

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 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 3

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.

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