Beautiful Boy Test | Final Test - Easy

David Sheff
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 173 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Beautiful Boy Test | Final Test - Easy

David Sheff
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 173 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What make of car does Nic drive?
(a) A Toyota.
(b) A Mazda.
(c) A Kia.
(d) A Jeep.

2. What final advice does David give to the addicted young woman for whom he buys lunch?
(a) To move to the country.
(b) To get some better friends.
(c) To go to rehab.
(d) To call her parents.

3. What is NOT a piece of evidence that tells the author and his wife that Nic has broken into the family home?
(a) The deadbolt on their bedroom door is broken.
(b) The redwood door has been splintered beyond repair.
(c) David's desk drawers have been ransacked.
(d) Cash is missing from Karen's jewelry box.

4. When Nic finally calls his father after a long period of being missing, he admits to being in the midst of a relapse on what two drugs?
(a) Heroin and cocaine.
(b) Methamphetamine and heroin.
(c) Codeine and valium.
(d) Methamphetamine and prescription opiates.

5. After begging his father to be put into another rehab program just after his near-fatal overdose, Nic takes what action?
(a) He assaults a nurse.
(b) He rips out his IVs and leaves the hospital against doctors' orders.
(c) He has a stroke.
(d) He calls his grandfather and asks for money.

6. Down what highway does Karen chase Nic when she sees him drive past the family home?
(a) The I-10.
(b) I-5.
(c) Highway 1.
(d) Highway 101.

7. What movie do Nic and David see together the night before he checks into the Hazelden?
(a) There Will Be Blood.
(b) Magnolia.
(c) Punch Drunk Love.
(d) Boogie Nights.

8. Part V begins with an excerpt of the script from what film?
(a) Magnolia.
(b) Human Nature.
(c) Being John Malkovich.
(d) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

9. When the woman at Al-Anon tells a story about considering suicide but deciding against it, what event befalls her directly afterwards?
(a) She goes missing on her way home.
(b) Her car is towed.
(c) She gets into a car accident.
(d) She gets a speeding ticket.

10. Nic admits to his father that the drug scenes from what movie make him want to get high?
(a) Crank.
(b) Trainspotting.
(c) Requiem for a Dream.
(d) The Big Lebowski.

11. What is the title of the article David writes for the New York Times Magazine?
(a) My Personal Peril.
(b) A Measure of Grief.
(c) My Addicted Son.
(d) A Love Letter to My Little Boy.

12. Nic finds a job at a rehab facility called what?
(a) Promises.
(b) Beaches.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Sandals.

13. David reports that when Z. breaks up with Nic, he is devastated, but rather than using, he takes what action?
(a) He vows to not let it bother him.
(b) He calls Randy and they go out for a beer.
(c) He calls Vicki.
(d) He calls Randy and they go for a bike ride.

14. Statistics show that girls with divorced parents do NOT have what experience earlier than children with married biological parents?
(a) Higher chances of being heavy drug users in high school.
(b) Higher rates of depression.
(c) Sexual experiences.
(d) Marriages of their own.

15. Who flies east with Nic to help him get settled at Hampshire College?
(a) Jasper and Daisy.
(b) David, Karen, and Jasper.
(c) Z.
(d) Karen and David.

Short Answer Questions

1. David wryly notes that thinking about relapse being a part of recovery is "like saying that a plane crash is good training for" (166) what?

2. How does David interpret Nic's glance over his shoulder as the two drive up to St. Helena Hospital?

3. When David calls the rehab facility at which Nic works, what do they report?

4. The teacher of what subject at Hampshire College writes to David to express her sadness at the news of Nic's relapse?

5. Nic's grandfather had died from years of abuse of what substance?

(see the answer keys)

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