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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 Caroline reading in Part Seven that she needs the dictionary for?

2. What does Caroline fear might be true about her sister, in Part Seven?

3. When it starts to snow, what does Caroline end up wearing on her feet?

4. On page 199, what criticism does Caroline make of her family?

5. What alerts the girls in the bathroom that something is wrong with Caroline in Part Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Caroline go after she leaves the cave?

2. What do Father and Caroline do when traveling by train does not work out?

3. What is ironic about the feeling Caroline shares about grocery shopping in the beginning of Part Six?

4. What does the condition of Caroline's feet tell the reader about her?

5. Where is Caroline living in Part Eight?

6. Who is Melody, and why does Caroline leave her a note?

7. When Paul falls from the sled and Caroline comes up the hill to find him, what does she see, and what does Susan tell her is happening?

8. What happens to cause Caroline to decide against approaching Della?

9. What education has Caroline received since returning to Oregon?

10. What habit does Caroline have in Part Eight that echoes Father's abduction of her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the significance of Father's status as a veteran. How does his service seem to have impacted him, to what extent does it drive the plot, and in what way does it comment on the fates of service members in the contemporary United States? Offer textual support for your ideas and cite your sources in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Look up information on Stockholm Syndrome and write an essay that defends, refutes, or qualifies the statement "In My Abandonment, Caroline is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome." Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims and cite your research sources in MLA format.

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