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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 Dave realize after years of struggling?
2. What does Dave's father do to ease Dave's burden in Chapter 6, While Father is Away?
3. Why does the school nurse begin to be interested in Dave's condition in Chapter 6, While Father is Away?
4. What lie does Dave's mother tell everyone about what Dave did to her while she was pregnant?
5. How does Dave feel about his brothers as he hears them laugh at a TV show while they eat their desserts?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why Dave's morale is low in the summer of 1971.
2. Describe Dave's behavior in the classroom one a day during the winter of 1973.
3. Explain what Dave eats after he finished the dishes one day in Chapter 7, The Lord's Prayer.
4. Explain the new punishment Dave's mother invents for him in Chapter 5, While Father is Away, and how he survives it.
5. Summarize the incidents that happen to Dave on the day his mother takes his brothers to the zoo.
6. Describe what Dave does when he finds that his stab wound is infected.
7. Summarize what Dave wants from his life now that he is free in the Epilogue.
8. Describe what Dave has to do while the rest of the family eats in the summer of 1971.
9. Describe how Dave is treated by the rest of the family when his mother is in the hospital delivering his new brother.
10. Describe the incident where Dave is stabbed by his mother.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an introduction to the book discussing what the reader should expect in the book. Prepare the reader for the heinous abuse that Dave experiences and how he comes out of it a survivor.
Essay Topic 2
Dave is abused constantly throughout the book.
- How does Dave's mother manage to keep her abuse of Dave a secret? Cite examples from the book.
- What does she tell the principal of Dave's school when he calls to ask about Dave's condition?
- How do the authorities finally find out the truth about Dave's abuse?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Dave as an adult.
- What does he vow to do with his life now that he is free?
- What has he done with his adult life to escape his past and move on?
- Explain how he prevents himself from falling into the black hole of self-pity.
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