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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 do Dave and his friends eat at the girl's house?

2. What does Dave arrange to do with Sarah?

3. Where does Dave eventually find Toph waiting for him?

4. What does John have done at hospital in this chapter?

5. Why does Puck annoy everyone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dave decide to apply for The Real World?

2. How does the Real Show eventually help Dave to promote the Might magazine?

3. What happens when the magazine claims Adam Rich has been murdered?

4. Why do more people agree to to the magazines nude photo shoot in Chapter 7?

5. What new idea do Dave and his editors come up with for the magazine in Chapter 9?

6. Describe Dave's interview with the producer in Chapter 6.

7. What does Dave start in Chapter 6?

8. What is wrong with Dave at the end of Chapter 8?

9. What happens to Shalini in Chapter 9?

10. What does Dave do for the front cover of the first issue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss differences between the novel and autobiographical formats. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

Essay Topic 2

What similarities in style and tone does Dave's memoir share with Might magazine?

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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