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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. How does Henny say she thinks of Louie?

2. Who is Hazel Moore?

3. Who is Henny's favorite?

4. Who is Beulah?

5. What does Henny threaten to do if she cannot have her way with Hazel Moore?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator characterize Sam?

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

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

6. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

7. Describe Sam's return home.

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

9. What does Louie do at Beulah's house?

10. Describe Henny's relationship with Bert Anderson.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, Louie's character reveals aspects of other characters, in their meanness or friendliness to her. How does Louie's murdering Henny change how characters see her?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of religion and morality in 'The Man Who Loved Children'? Is the religion organized, or is it just implicit in Sam and Henny's codes of conduct?

Essay Topic 3

When he is working in Malaysia, Sam tells his Naden clerk not to address him formally, but to view him as an equal. How does Sam's democratic impulse fare in the book? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage--not only to the characters' lives, but to the reader's experience? Is it a positive trait?

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