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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 street did Caroline live on with her family?

2. On the morning after their night at the hot spring, what does Father say when they see the river?

3. When they get to the bus station, what does Father tell Caroline to buy?

4. What does Caroline spend a lot of her free time looking for in Part Eight?

5. How old does Caroline tell the woman on the bus she is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Once Caroline has returned to the place where Father held her captive after abducting her, how does she feel about Father and the past four years?

3. When Caroline goes inside the yurt after Susan and Paul leave, what does she see?

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

5. When Caroline leaves her old house, where does she go next, and why?

6. 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?

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

8. What does the reader learn has happened to one of Caroline's toes?

9. What is Caroline doing with her journal and Father's notebook?

10. How do Caroline's purchases in Boise foreshadow her plans?

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 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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the book's messages about individual identity. How is identity formed, who has the right to provide input into identity formation, and what rights should an individual have to create a non-mainstream identity? Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

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