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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the first place that Father and Caroline go when they leave the farm?
(a) To Forest Park.
(b) To Safeway.
(c) To the Methodist church.
(d) To an ATM.

2. What does Jean Bauer tell Caroline about going to regular school?
(a) It is what is right for some students, but not everyone.
(b) It is not as important as learning and being curious.
(c) It is a place to learn social skills.
(d) She needs to catch up academically.

3. When Caroline runs into Taffy again, what news does Taffy have for her about Valerie?
(a) Valerie has disappeared with Richard.
(b) Valerie is dead.
(c) Valerie is pregnant.
(d) Valerie has been arrested again.

4. Besides Randy, what does Caroline carry everywhere?
(a) Her mother's ring.
(b) A pencil.
(c) A piece of ribbon.
(d) A marble.

5. Why does Caroline take her shirt off when she is in the lookout?
(a) She wants to see how her body is changing.
(b) She is unexpectedly hot from climbing the tree.
(c) She wants to feel the sun on her skin.
(d) It got wet when she fell into the stream.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Caroline says, on page 84, "everything's different now," what is Father's response?

2. What is the name of the boy that Caroline meets in the yard of his house?

3. What kind of building is the Father and Caroline's new house?

4. What game does Caroline often play with Father?

5. Why does Father take Caroline to the Methodist church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Father tell Caroline about his plans after they leave the men's camp?

2. What kind of psychological test does Jean Bauer run with the pictures?

3. What comparison does Father make in the question he asks the officers who are driving him and Caroline to the farm?

4. When they return to the park, what does Father find in the hollow in the crook of the tree, and what do he and Caroline do with it?

5. What do Father and Caroline find when they return to their house in Forest Park?

6. When they get close to their cave home, how do Father and Caroline change the way they are walking, and why?

7. When Caroline and Father are leaving the ATM, they run into a man who knows Father. What name does the man call Father, and where does he seem to know him from?

8. What seems to be happening to Father while they are living in the house, and what textual details support this interpretation?

9. The novel opens with Caroline reflecting that "There's nothing to do but keep walking, you have to be ready for everything" (3). What does this comment tell the reader about Caroline's state of mind?

10. What happens when Mr. Walters tells Father the work he wants him to do on Father's first day of work?

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