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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. Where does David's grandmother think he should visit while in town?
2. Who does David find out has died while he was in Egypt?
3. The last time David saw his father, he showed him his prized possession. What is his father's prized possession?
4. According to David, what word is associated with the highest compliment that his father could give him?
5. What happened to the home of David's mother while he was in Egypt?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does David's mother mean by "All I've done for you" when talking to David?
2. How did David deal with his Mother's abuse as a child?
3. Patsy gives David a lot of trouble about not going out with her in Chapter 6 entitled "Regroup." How does David justify to Patsy not going out and doing anything fun?
4. What is the only way that David knows how to deal with his father's death?
5. What advice does David's father have for him as he gets ready to leave for the Air Force?
6. While looking around his mother's bedroom, what is he surprised to find after seven years?
7. In Chapter 1 entitled "The End," what happens when David finally lashes out verbally against his mother?
8. Why is David afraid of the nurse reporting the abuse to the authorities?
9. Why does David find out that his superior officers have been so hard on him?
10. David's grandmother denies abusing his mother. What did his grandmother do to her daughter as a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe David's relationship with Patsy. Why does David begin the relationship with Patsy? How does their relationship progress? Is the relationship good for David? For Patsy? Do you believe that the relationship was doomed from the beginning? Why?
Essay Topic 2
When talking to David about his past abuse, Patsy did not believe him. Discuss why you think Patsy did not believe that David was abused. What about David's personality makes it hard for her to believe that he was abused? Does David possess any signs of being an abused child? If so, why does Patsy fail to recognize these signs?
Essay Topic 3
David feels a lot of inadequacies in his relationships with others. Choose one of the following people from the novel and discuss David's feelings of inadequacy regarding that person. Why does he feel these inadequacies? What fuels these inadequacies for David and the individual chosen? Are the inadequacies played upon by the individual in the relationship with David?
-Patsy
-Marsha
-David's mother
-Stephen (his son)
-Any of his brothers
-David's first manager Jerry
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