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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 the narrator say Henny treats Louie when she takes the children to Washington D.C. for shoes?

2. Who is Norman Collyer?

3. Whose family home is Monocacy?

4. What does Henny want of Hazel Moore?

5. What is Beulah's family business?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Henny's letter from her brother, Norman Collyer.

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Henny's relationship with Bert Anderson.

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

9. Describe the opening scene of 'The Man Who Loved Children'.

10. Describe Sam's relation to Naden.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Would you recommend 'The Man Who Loved Children'? For what purposes would you recommend 'The Man Who Loved Children', and to what kinds of readers would you not recommend it? What book would you recommend that would cover the same material or provide the same emotional experience in a different way?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent is 'The Man Who Loved Children' a woman's book? What markers are there to say that this is written from a female author's perspective and this perspective is different from what a man's perspective might be?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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