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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 does Sam say about Louie ever leaving?

2. What is the atmosphere like at Tohoga House when Jo arrives there?

3. What worries Henny after David Collyer's funeral?

4. The boys think a marlin is a ___________.

5. What does Louie tell her father she wants to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Saul Pilgrim's visit in June.

2. What news does Jo bring to the house?

3. Describe Henny's stay at Hassie's house.

4. How does the topic of poetry figure in Sam's homecoming celebration?

5. What happens when Sam reads Louie's poetry?

6. How does Sam react when Louie tells him that she killed Henny?

7. How does the new baby strain the Pollit household?

8. Why doesn't Sam let Louie go when she says she wants to leave?

9. What is Ernie's main concern, which has Sam so displeased?

10. What is uncommon about Cathleen's eighteenth birthday?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

To what extent is 'The Man Who Loved Children' a woman's book? What markers are there to say that this is written from a female author's perspective and this perspective is different from what a man's perspective might be?

Essay Topic 3

To what extent is Louie's tale every woman's tale? To what extent is it uniquely Louie's own story? How can we extrapolate from this story to discuss the experiences of girls and women in general?

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