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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. How does Henny characterize Louie's teacher?

2. Louie says Spa House is filled with __________________.

3. What does Louie tell Sam about Henny's death?

4. What does Louie do after confessing to her father?

5. What does the narrator say is clear has happened since Henny left Tohoga House?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the reading of David Collyer's will.

2. How has the relationship between Sam and Henny changed by the time of Cathleen's eighteenth birthday?

3. Describe Louie's experience in a new school.

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

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

6. What does Henny say about the news Jo brings?

7. What is it that upsets Sam during his homecoming celebration?

8. How do the Pollits end up in Spa House?

9. Describe Henny's second visit to Bert Anderson.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What stories does this story echo? How does this story resolve differently from Snow White? What makes 'The Man Who Loved Children' unique in its presentation of the familiar story of a girl who doesn't get along with her step-mother?

Essay Topic 2

The Pollits have problems inside and outside of the house. How are these two spheres related? Are the problems in one related to the problems in the other? Do they mirror, echo, follow each other? What strategies do the Pollits have for solving these problems? Do their solutions apply from one sphere to the other?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of 'The Man Who Loved Children'. Did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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