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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Part Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is surprising about the way Susan and Paul are dressed?
(a) They are wearing power company uniforms.
(b) They are each wearing several shirts and several pairs of pants.
(c) They do not have any cold-weather clothing.
(d) They are wearing long white robes.

2. Why do Father and Caroline not stretch a tarp over the hot spring to trap its heat around them?
(a) The gasses from the spring are not safe in a confined space.
(b) The heat from the spring will melt the tarp.
(c) The tarps are bright and easy to see from the sky.
(d) Father has lost the tarps.

3. Why does Susan's hair look different to Caroline when she comes outside to find Paul?
(a) She has cut it short.
(b) She has slicked it back with something greasy.
(c) She has dyed it a new color.
(d) She is wearing a second wig.

4. When Valerie introduces Taffy to Caroline, what does Caroline ask her?
(a) If that is her real name.
(b) What "Taffy" is short for.
(c) Why her parents gave her such a weird name.
(d) Whether her name embarrasses her.

5. What justification for stealing does Father give Caroline at the salvage yard?
(a) These are things that no one else wants.
(b) He has repaired the hole in their fence for them.
(c) He has organized the materials while looking through them.
(d) Rich people will not miss a few scraps of metal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Father and Caroline go to the men's camp?

2. Who is "Chainsaw"?

3. In Part Four, what do Caroline and Father find has happened to their house?

4. What fact does the reader learn about Caroline toward the end of Part Six?

5. When she is riding in the police car, what does Caroline refuse to do because she doesn't "want them to think anything untrue" (53)?

(see the answer key)

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