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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the narrator characterize Darren?
(a) A man-child.
(b) A baby.
(c) A pet.
(d) An animal.
2. How often would Adam work with Evanson?
(a) Every day after school.
(b) Three times a week.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Twice a week.
3. What is the reputation of the town of Stull?
(a) An insignificant crossroads.
(b) A snotty university town.
(c) A gate to hell.
(d) A filthy refinery town.
4. How does the narrator characterize the state of American culture?
(a) Seven lost generations.
(b) Lost boys without parents.
(c) Relentlessly cruel innovation.
(d) Adolescence without end.
5. How did Sima’s relationship with Eric begin?
(a) Eric proposed to her on their first date.
(b) Eric’s girlfriend was jealous of her.
(c) They were in graduate school together.
(d) Eric was Sima’s patient.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Darren’s relationship with Ron Williams?
2. How did the “Nowak Carter Gordon Davis types” treat Darren when he hung out with them?
3. What does Adam say it means to be a subject in a supermarket?
4. What kind of signs does Adam say his classmates exchanged?
5. How does Adam’s mother characterize the author of the purple cow lyric?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways did Adam and his friend shift their aggression into the realm of language?
2. What happened to Darren at Clinton Lake?
3. What advice did Evanson give Adam at the debate tournament in Minneapolis?
4. How does the narrator characterize the interaction between Adam and Jane and the Phelpses on the way to Jane’s keynote address?
5. What explanation does Jonathan give for why his parents and the diplomats drank so much in Taiwan?
6. What cause Jane to consciously redirect her thoughts about Adam’s behavior, and how did she do so?
7. How does the narrator characterize Darren as a roller skater?
8. What is Adam’s relationship with Peter Evanson?
9. What was Jonathan’s experience in the bathhouse, and how did it affect him?
10. How did Jonathan’s relationship with Sima begin?
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