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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 Norman Collyer tell Henny?

2. Who is Nellie?

3. What is Beulah's family business?

4. What is Bonnie's reaction when Jo Pollit talks to her?

5. How does Sam tell Naden to address him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Louie's personality?

2. How does the narrator characterize Sam's world view?

3. Describe Sam's return home.

4. What do Louie and Nellie discuss when Henny and the children get to Monocacy?

5. Describe Sam's relation to Naden.

6. What might be being foreshadowed in Chapters 3 and 4?

7. What news does Jo bring when she comes?

8. Describe Sam and Henny's conversation at the end of Chapter 4.

9. How does Hazel Moore disappoint Henny?

10. Describe Henny's relationship with Bert Anderson.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of 'The Man Who Loved Children'. Did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

How are we to take the murder at the end of 'The Man Who Loved Children'? Is this a crime Louie will lament for the rest of her days? Was it somehow self-defense? Was it an uncomfortable authorial imposition on a narrative that wasn't ending neatly?

Essay Topic 3

To what extent is Louie's tale every woman's tale? To what extent is it uniquely Louie's own story? How can we extrapolate from this story to discuss the experiences of girls and women in general?

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