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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 is the name of Dave's girlfriend?

2. Where did Beth and Dave promise not to take their mother?

3. Where do Dave and Meredith go after the bar?

4. Who does Dave say stares at him during the Little League games?

5. What does Dave imagine the baby sitter doing to Toph?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What problems do Toph and Dave have living together?

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

4. What does Dave do during the nights?

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

6. Describe Dave's father's funeral.

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

8. What problems does Dave have cooking?

9. Summarize Chapter 4.

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

Discuss with the students first person point of view. Why do the students think first person point of view is not necessarily reliable? What moments in the book do the students think are not so reliable and why? With the students, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the first person point of view.

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

Examine the role of an editor.

1) What is the role of a editor? What different kinds of editors are there?

2) How much say does an editor has with what goes into a publication?

3) In what way does Dave have the right characteristics to succeed as an editor?

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