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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 get bored of saying?

2. What is Dave struggling to decide in this chapter?

3. How does Dave secure the apartment he wants to move into?

4. Why does Dave not go out at night?

5. What does Dave look for when he leaves the club?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dave do when he gets lonely in Chapter 5?

2. How does a group of Mexican children harass Dave and Meredith in Chapter 5?

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

4. Summarize Chapter 4.

5. Why does Dave not date many women?

6. How does Dave feel when he finally leaves Toph with a babysitter?

7. Describe Dave's father's funeral.

8. What problems does Dave have cooking?

9. What is Dave and Beth's plan?

10. What does Dave think about as he holds ice to his mother's nose?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Eggers' writing style. How would you describe his prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? Does he use any specific writing techniques? What meaning does Eggers' style give to his story?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the fake obituaries Dave and his fellow editors run in the Might magazine.

1) What comment is the magazine trying to make by running fake obituaries?

2) Why do the fake obituaries backfire so badly?

3) How do the fake obituaries express the book's theme of death and how people react to it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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