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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 is Togoha House?

2. Whose family home is Monocacy?

3. Henny plans to ask her friend for ___________.

4. What does Louie do when Henny is in her special place?

5. What do Louie's cousins teacher her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Louie treated in the Pollit household?

2. How does Henny get reprieve from the children at Tohoga House?

3. What is Louie's relationship with Beulah?

4. Compare and contrast Louie with Henny's brother Barry.

5. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

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

7. What is the financial state of the Pollit household?

8. Describe Sam's return home.

9. What is Sam's relationship with Colonel Willets?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way is 'The Man Who Loved Children' an American book? In what ways is it not? How does the book define the American way of life, and how does the book fulfill its own definition? If it is not American, what is it? Does it lay out terms for what is not American as well?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Louie keeps a journal and writes down her own version of the story the narrator is ostensibly telling. How does this narrative within a narrative complicate or clarify our understanding of the story? What other gestures of self-awareness are there in the book? Do the characters ever seem to be aware of being characters? Does the author reveal herself and speak directly to the reader? What is the role of writing, in itself, in 'The Man Who Loved Children'?

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