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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: stay up late, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David Sheff states in the introduction that he uses what literary device sparingly within the memoir?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. David notes that "tests of marijuana have shown that there is twice as much THC in the average joint or pipeful today than in the weed of" (51) how long ago?
(a) A score.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) A decade.
(d) Two years.

3. The therapist recommends that Nic stay with Vicki during which part(s) of each year?
(a) The school year.
(b) Holidays and the school year.
(c) Holidays and summers.
(d) Summers and spring breaks.

4. Before taking up surfing, Nic had never wanted to go to the beach for what reason?
(a) He had not wanted to show his body.
(b) He had liked video games better than nature.
(c) He had not wanted to get sandy.
(d) He had not wanted to get a sunburn.

5. To what city does Vicki move when she leaves the Bay Area?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) New York City.
(d) Redding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose suicide note serves as a source of Part I's epigraph?

2. In what year does Chapter 1 begin?

3. What drug does David name as the most prevalent one in the schools he had attended?

4. Nic begins sixth grade at a new school in what location?

5. What is NOT something listed among the things Vicki and David divide upon their divorce?

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