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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 the man doing when he spots Caroline in the lookout?
2. When Caroline sees the "shredded paper people" using her and Father's old Coleman stove, what is it implied that these people are using the stove for?
3. When they get on the bus to leave the farm, how is Caroline disguised?
4. What job does Caroline have when Father is sleeping?
5. Whom is Father quoting when he says, on page 14, "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes"?
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. What comparison does Father make in the question he asks the officers who are driving him and Caroline to the farm?
3. What do Father and Caroline find when they return to their house in Forest Park?
4. What privileges has Caroline earned as she has gotten older?
5. What elaborate ritual do Caroline and Father have for sharing food in a way that does not alert people that they are together?
6. How do Caroline and Father end up getting found by the police?
7. 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?
8. What does Caroline remember when she is riding in the police car?
9. What is Caroline eager to tell Father once they are alone in Part Three, and how does he respond?
10. What seems to be happening to Father while they are living in the house, and what textual details support this interpretation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the symbolic value of the toy horse, Randy, in My Abandonment. Be sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Peter Rock has said in interviews that no other narrative voice would work for this story other than Caroline's. Write an essay that examines how Caroline's narrative voice supports the novel's theme. Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Is Caroline's fantasy about recruiting first her sister Della and later one of the girls from the softball team in Sisters just that--a harmless fantasy--or do you believe that Caroline, like Father, will eventually act on her need to recruit someone else into her solitary lifestyle? Write an essay that uses textual evidence to defend a claim about Caroline's desire to recruit a younger girl into her lifestyle.
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