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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 David's social worker?

2. What are the only letters that David regularly receives while in basic training?

3. According to David's mother, he is not a person. What is he?

4. What is the last thing that David said to his father before he died?

5. Which one of David's brothers came to the hospital to see their father before David arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does David choose to stay at the dorms rather than go out with the other soldiers?

2. How does David impress the Air Force sergeant assigned to his enlistment paperwork?

3. What advice does David's father have for him as he gets ready to leave for the Air Force?

4. David's mother stopped calling David by his name while he was a child. Describe the regression of David's "name."

5. Why is David shocked by the one and only letter his father sends him?

6. How did David deal with his Mother's abuse as a child?

7. Why is David surprised upon entering his mother's home after seven years?

8. How does David's father "tell" him where the badge is?

9. While looking around his mother's bedroom, what is he surprised to find after seven years?

10. Who has come to visit David's father in the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it important for David to write books about his past? Did this help him heal in anyway? How do you know?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why David struggles with forgiving his mother. What does it finally take for David to forgive his mother? Why is it that David struggles with forgiving her?

Essay Topic 3

David tells readers about a time in his childhood when he was ready to die. Why do you think he was finally ready to give up? What finally snapped in David? Given all of the abuse, why was he willing to let his mother finally win and kill him? Or would she really be winning?

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