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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim leave in the basement where he shoots up?

2. Who does Jim hang out with in Horn & Hardart's?

3. What age does Jim recall that keeps returning to him one day in the summer 1965?

4. Why does Jim walk up sixteen flights of stairs to Benny's apartment?

5. What do "some dopey private school chicks" try to pass off as grass to Jim and Jimmy Mancole?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Jim become disillusioned with the peace movement? Why does he believe that leaders are not needed? What type of change does he suggest?

Essay Topic 2

How are teachers portrayed in the diaries? How is education portrayed? What feelings or experiences might explain Jim's fantasy of bringing a gun to school?

Essay Topic 3

How do adults positively influence the "characters" in the book? How do they negatively affect them?

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