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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 say when Louie confesses to him?

2. What is Sam's status in terms of work, in Chapter 9?

3. How does the narrator characterize Hassie's house?

4. What happens when Sam opens the crates he brought home from Malaysia?

5. How does Sam anger Colonel Willets?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do things come to a head with Colonel Willets and Sam?

2. How does Sam react when Louie tells him that she killed Henny?

3. Describe Saul Pilgrim's visit in June.

4. Describe Louie's experience in a new school.

5. How does Sam react to the birth of a new baby?

6. Describe the opening of the crates from Sam's trip.

7. How does the topic of poetry figure in Sam's homecoming celebration?

8. How has the relationship between Sam and Henny changed by the time of Cathleen's eighteenth birthday?

9. Why doesn't Sam let Louie go when she says she wants to leave?

10. What does Henny say about the news Jo brings?

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

To what extent is Louie's tale every woman's tale? To what extent is it uniquely Louie's own story? How can we extrapolate from this story to discuss the experiences of girls and women in general?

Essay Topic 3

The Pollits have problems inside and outside of the house. How are these two spheres related? Are the problems in one related to the problems in the other? Do they mirror, echo, follow each other? What strategies do the Pollits have for solving these problems? Do their solutions apply from one sphere to the other?

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