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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 think Toph worries about?

2. Who does Dave spend all of his time with in this chapter?

3. Why does Dave not have a job?

4. What does Dave want to buy his mother for her birthday?

5. What does the nurse suggest Dave uses to stop the bleeding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationships with women does Dave have during this period?

2. Describe Dave's father's funeral.

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

4. What does Dave do during the nights?

5. What is wrong with Dave's mother at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

7. How does Dave act in the club with his friends?

8. How does Dave's disorganization affect Toph?

9. How does Dave help his mother in the first chapter?

10. What is Dave and Beth's plan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the character of Toph.

1) How did the death of Toph's parents affect him?

2) How differently will Toph grow up without his parents?

3) What positive and negative effects has Dave had on Toph's life?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Eggers use character and setting to express his themes?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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