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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 Sam talk about with Whitey?

2. What is Togoha House?

3. What 'crime' does Nellie hold against Louie?

4. Where does Beulah live?

5. What will Sam's heroism mean for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sam's relation to Naden.

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

3. Describe Louie's visit to Mrs. Kydd's house.

4. What does Henny complain about to Bert Anderson?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

'The Man Who Loved Children' is in many ways a coming-of-age story about an artist. How does Stead use the coming-of-age story for her purposes, and how does Louie's coming of age as a writer differ from other comings of age?

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