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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam say he would like to create?
(a) A cure for degenerates.
(b) A shelter for degenerates.
(c) A world without misfits.
(d) A world run by misfits.

2. What does Henny's friend tell her?
(a) She should travel.
(b) She should get help.
(c) She should stop dwelling on the negative things.
(d) She should divorce Sam.

3. Where is Sam Pollit?
(a) On an expedition.
(b) At work.
(c) He disappeared when the children were small.
(d) Hunting.

4. What 'crime' does Nellie hold against Louie?
(a) She time she got sick and needed to be taken care of.
(b) The time she lost her keys.
(c) The time she took flowers from someone's yard to give a neighbor.
(d) The time she forgot her homework.

5. How does the narrator characterize Sam Pollit's relationship with his children?
(a) He overdoes it to compensate for being gone so often.
(b) He sleeps and rises by their needs.
(c) He tries to ignore them as much as he can.
(d) He never breaks promises to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henny use the friend she meets in Washington D.C.?

2. How is 'The Man Who Loved Children' narrated?

3. What reason does Sam give for his marriage to Henny?

4. How does the narrator characterize Henny Pollit?

5. What does Sam say he wants from Josephine Pollit when she arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Henny's relationship with relation to the children?

2. How do the two trips, to Harper's Ferry and to Monocacy, show us different sides of Louie's character?

3. How does Hazel Moore disappoint Henny?

4. Describe Sam's return home.

5. Describe the trip to Washington D.C. to buy shoes for the children.

6. Describe Josephine Pollit's arrival at Tohoga House.

7. How is Louie treated in the Pollit household?

8. What does Henny like about visiting Washington D.C.?

9. How does Henny characterize the difference between herself and Sam?

10. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

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