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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 Beth talk her mother into doing?

2. Why can Dave's mother's nose bleed be deadly?

3. What does Dave discover is missing from his pants?

4. What do the kids help Dave do?

5. What does Dave feel it is important to show Toph in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the police deal with Dave's stolen wallet in Chapter 5?

2. Summarize Chapter 4.

3. Why doesn't Dave like telling people why he has to look after Toph?

4. Give an example of Dave and Toph's being late.

5. In what way does Dave struggle with the memory of his parents in Chapter 4?

6. Summarize the second chapter.

7. How does Dave's situation change at the beginning of chapter 3?

8. What different directions do the characters take in Chapter 2?

9. Why does Dave call a nurse rather than take his mother to the hospital?

10. What does Dave do during the nights?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following and describe how his/her character matures in the book.

1) Beth

2) Dave

3) Toph

4) Kirsten

Essay Topic 2

Eggers uses fantasy elements in his memoir.

1) Why does Eggers uses fantasy elements in a non-fiction book?

2) When does he use fantasy elements, and why?

Essay Topic 3

What major events had a profound effect on Eggers' life and how did they change him? What does Eggers still have to learn by the end of the book?

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