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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. Where is Sam Pollit?

2. What is Sam Pollit's profession?

3. What is the house like when Sam arrives home?

4. Who is Hazel Moore?

5. Who is Henny's favorite?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Henny's relationship with Bert Anderson.

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

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

4. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

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

6. How does the narrator characterize Sam?

7. What does Bert Anderson tell Henny?

8. Describe Sam's relation to Naden.

9. What news does Jo bring when she comes?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What stories does this story echo? How does this story resolve differently from Snow White? What makes 'The Man Who Loved Children' unique in its presentation of the familiar story of a girl who doesn't get along with her step-mother?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of 'The Man Who Loved Children'. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

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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