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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drug does David name as the most prevalent one in the schools he had attended?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) LSD.

2. At what age does Nic start attending preschool a few days a week?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. In what year did the FDA classify methamphetamine as a controlled substance?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1951.

4. Part II begins with an epigraph from which play by William Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) The Tempest.
(c) The Merry Wives of Windsor.
(d) King Lear.

5. David's roommate in college was a student named Charles who hailed from which New York City borough?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Queens.

6. What zoo does Nic often visit as a child?
(a) Portland Zoo.
(b) San Francisco Zoo.
(c) San Diego Zoo.
(d) Sacramento Zoo.

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

8. What is the name of Nic's little brother?
(a) Jasper.
(b) Randall.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Elton.

9. The child development specialist tells David that "teenagers with drug problems will not be prepared for" (98) what?
(a) The devastating consequences.
(b) Adult roles.
(c) Their own demise.
(d) Decision-making.

10. When David was still a young child, his family moved from Massachusetts to what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Illinois.
(c) California.
(d) Arizona.

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

12. To whom does David attribute Nic's love for film directors such as Godard, Bergman, and Kurosawa?
(a) Vicki.
(b) Himself.
(c) Jasper.
(d) Karen.

13. In her work focused on children of divorce, Dr. Judith Wallerstein found that what fraction of children with divorced parents "experienced moderate to severe depression" (68)?
(a) One-quarter.
(b) One-third.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) One-half.

14. What is the name of the girl with whom Nic is enamored in sixth grade?
(a) Theresa.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Skye.

15. What are the names of Nic's two first-ever dogs?
(a) Buster and Keaton.
(b) Moon-dog and Brutus.
(c) Alex and Sebastian.
(d) Tobias and Beatrix.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nic get out of jail the first time he is arrested?

2. David relates that Charles died on the eve of what day?

3. Nic decides to attend what university?

4. After listing a myriad of impressions at which Nic is skilled, David says that Nic's best impression is of whom?

5. By 1948, legal methamphetamines were used by 5% of what country's 16-25-year-olds?

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