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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. Why does Father take Caroline to the Methodist church?
2. What does Caroline tell people when they say something about her living in the park?
3. On page 96, who calls Caroline a "hillbilly girl"?
4. What justification for stealing does Father give Caroline at the salvage yard?
5. What happens when Caroline starts walking around and around the room she shares with Valerie and Taffy?
Short Essay Questions
1. When they are walking back home on the night when the story begins, what animal does Father tell Caroline to look at, and why?
2. 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?
3. What is Caroline eager to tell Father once they are alone in Part Three, and how does he respond?
4. What privileges has Caroline earned as she has gotten older?
5. 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?
6. What arrangement have the social services people come to with Mr. Walters?
7. What happens when Mr. Walters tells Father the work he wants him to do on Father's first day of work?
8. 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?
9. What does Valerie say she dislikes about Caroline, and what seems to be the real motivation for her hostility?
10. How do Caroline and Father end up getting found by the police?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explicates the final four paragraphs of My Abandonment. Explain what Caroline literally means, how this passage functions on a figurative level, and what the passage adds to the book's overall meaning. Support your claims with textual evidence, at least some of which should be quoted.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that examines the book's messages about family. Caroline was taken from one family by Father in an attempt to build himself a family. While she lives with Father, Caroline meets the Skeleton Family and Susan and Paul. And, by the end of the book, Caroline is thinking ahead to either having children of her own or recruiting a younger girl to recreate the kind of family she had with Father. Consider all of these elements as you make and defend a claim about what My Abandonment is saying about what constitutes family and what the purpose of family is.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that explicates the lesson of the dead deer. In your essay, use details, imagery, and diction from each of the passages that make reference to the deer to explain the literal and figurative significance of the deer. Then make and defend a claim about the significance of these passages to the novel's overall meaning.
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