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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the narrator characterize the Pollit children?
(a) Civilized.
(b) Hyper.
(c) Always hungry.
(d) Disobedient.
2. What does Nellie teach Louie?
(a) French words.
(b) How to tie knots.
(c) How to plant trees.
(d) How to bake.
3. Why does Louie feel at home with Beulah?
(a) Her family neglects her and lets her have her freedom.
(b) Her family is happy to have her.
(c) Her family lets her do whatever she wants.
(d) She doesn't have to look after her siblings there.
4. What is the house like when Sam arrives home?
(a) Seething with resentments.
(b) Dark.
(c) Bubbling with children.
(d) Quiet.
5. How does the narrator characterize Sam Pollit's relationship with his children?
(a) He sleeps and rises by their needs.
(b) He overdoes it to compensate for being gone so often.
(c) He tries to ignore them as much as he can.
(d) He never breaks promises to them.
6. What is Norman Collyer's response to Henny's request?
(a) He refuses.
(b) He sends her what she wants.
(c) He does not answer.
(d) He agrees, on conditions.
7. How is 'The Man Who Loved Children' narrated?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Second person.
8. What is Louie's relationship with Henny?
(a) Henny is her step-mother.
(b) Henny is her aunt.
(c) Henny is her cousin.
(d) Henny is her mother.
9. What does Henny's friend tell her?
(a) She should stop dwelling on the negative things.
(b) She should travel.
(c) She should divorce Sam.
(d) She should get help.
10. What was David Collyer's relationship with Archie Lessinum?
(a) He employed him at Monocacy.
(b) He chose him for his daughter.
(c) He employed him at one of his facilities.
(d) Lessinum was an old enemy of Collyer's.
11. What does Sam think about as he walks through Georgetown?
(a) His father.
(b) His childhood home.
(c) His garden.
(d) His dead mother.
12. What state is Monocacy in when the Pollits arrive there in Chapter 5, Part 2?
(a) Ruins.
(b) Splendor.
(c) Disarray.
(d) Neglect.
13. What makes Sam a hero to his department?
(a) He received an award for Field Biology.
(b) He located an intact specimen of an extinct species.
(c) He is appointed to an Anthropological Mission.
(d) His data proved a theory.
14. When does Henny say she was tricked?
(a) When she gave up her inheritance.
(b) When she bought the house.
(c) When she married Sam.
(d) When she had children.
15. What is Henny's mother doing when Henny arrives at Monocacy?
(a) Needlework.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Drinking.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old is Josephine Pollit?
2. Henny plans to ask her friend for ___________.
3. In what way does Sam juxtapose nature and Henny?
4. Why does Henny refuse to write to Sam?
5. Who is Archie Lessinum?
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