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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 happened in Chapters 9 and 10 that presented the component of disillusionment?

2. What did the author's mother do upon her return home in Chapter 13?

3. What did the author do in Chapter 11 after the person overstayed her welcome?

4. How did the author charm the people he met at dinner in Chapter 15?

5. What did the friend from school patronize the author about at the beginning of Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the author threatened with in Chapter 10?

2. Where does the author describe working in Chapter 15?

3. Where was the author going in Chapter 17?

4. What does the author describe at Chapter 10's conclusion?

5. What were the author's jobs when he was 16 years old living in Florida?

6. How does the author's acceptance seal his "coming of age" story?

7. Where did Dagmar go in Chapter 11?

8. Why did the author decide to return home after running away?

9. Describe the author's experience hitch-hiking.

10. What did Dagmar confirm to the author after his friend patronized him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's relationship to Jessica and how she is the one person who brings about a selflessness within the author that no one else was able to demonstrate prior to her birth.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and explain the importance of the author's first recalled memory of the book.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how a plot is more applicable to fiction and a story is more applicable to an autobiography by using examples of Conroy's autobiography, "Stop-Time".

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