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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 is Jo's main concern regarding Bonnie?

2. What worries Henny after David Collyer's funeral?

3. Why does the Pollit family have to leave Georgetown?

4. What happens to Bonnie's baby?

5. What is Henny's response to the events of mid summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Henny's stay at Hassie's house.

4. What leads up to Henny's death?

5. Describe the reading of David Collyer's will.

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

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

8. How is Henny replaced?

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

10. What is uncommon about Cathleen's eighteenth birthday?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Describe the significance of the title, 'The Man Who Loved Children'. Is this ironic, and if so, what is the irony? What are the two--or more--perspectives--from which this title could be seen? What effect does this irony have on our reading of the book? What does it make us focus on? How would a different title change our sense of the book?

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