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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Saul Pilgrim talk about when he comes to visit?
(a) Economics.
(b) Politics.
(c) Biology.
(d) Fishing.

2. What is Jo's main concern regarding Bonnie?
(a) She will have to live with her.
(b) She will need money.
(c) She will do this again.
(d) She will need round-the-clock care.

3. Who is Cathleen?
(a) Hazel Moore's daughter.
(b) Josephine Pollit's daughter.
(c) Hassie's only daughter.
(d) Henny's new maid.

4. Henny threatens Sam with _________.
(a) Hurting Louie or Ernie.
(b) Leaving.
(c) Killing him.
(d) Kicking him out.

5. What does Louie tell her father she wants to do?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Leave Spa House.
(d) Kill Henny.

6. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Sam and Colonel Willets?
(a) Colonel Willets loathes Sam's intellectual background.
(b) Colonel Willets simply doesn't like Sam.
(c) Colonel Willets is afraid of Sam's ambition.
(d) Colonel Willets resents Sam's easy-going personality.

7. How does the narrator characterize the house Sam finds?
(a) It is splendid.
(b) It needs work.
(c) It is a wreck.
(d) It will have to be totally rebuilt.

8. What is the atmosphere like at Tohoga House when Jo arrives there?
(a) Excited.
(b) Confused.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Hectic.

9. How does Bert Anderson disappoint Henny?
(a) He refuses to listen to her complain.
(b) He tells her to count her blessings.
(c) He does not have money to give her.
(d) He walks away from their conversation.

10. What do Louie's siblings taunt her about?
(a) Being in love with her teacher.
(b) Being dumb.
(c) Being in love with a boy.
(d) Thinking she's superior.

11. What worries Henny after David Collyer's funeral?
(a) Where they will get money from.
(b) Who she can ask for money.
(c) When they will be evicted.
(d) How she will get through the summer without Louie or Hazel Moore.

12. What news does Josephine Pollit tell?
(a) Bonnie had a baby.
(b) Bonnie had fallen in love.
(c) Colonel Willets had been demoted.
(d) Bonnie had another affair.

13. Now that we have read the ending, the book's title 'The Man Who Loved Children' could be seen __________.
(a) As metaphorical.
(b) As sympathetic.
(c) As allegorical.
(d) As ironic.

14. What does Sam get the children excited about?
(a) The possibility of a big job.
(b) A large fish.
(c) The fantasy of living in a big house.
(d) A deer.

15. What does Bonnie tell Sam?
(a) She will marry him.
(b) She wants to die.
(c) She will never see the baby's father.
(d) She will get married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louie see when she looks into Henny's room?

2. What does Sam say to excuse Henny's behavior when she beats Ernie for no reason?

3. How does Henny leave her argument with Bert Anderson?

4. What does Henny snap at when she is in a foul mood?

5. How does Henny escape from the house?

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