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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. About what topic does David educate Nic and his friends when he drives them to school each day?
2. What elements does David name as being involved in the deaths of Charles's parents prior to Charles's enrollment in college?
3. What drug does David name as the most prevalent one in the schools he had attended?
4. What zoo does Nic often visit as a child?
5. David's college was chosen by which magazine as "one of the top party schools in the nation" (84)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss Sheff's purpose for providing statistics about methamphetamine use in the introduction.
2. What is the cause of David's resentment toward Nic, even though David knows that he has an illness?
3. What pattern does David note in Nic's literary tastes in high school?
4. What negative milestone takes place in Nic's life takes place just before Nic's eighteenth birthday?
5. What positive effects of marijuana does David describe in his own life?
6. Which of Nic's childhood heroes commits suicide?
7. How is the theme of family bonds depicted within the scene of Daisy's birth?
8. What advice do many "drug counselors tell parents" of David's "generation" (52) with respect to drug use and honesty?
9. How does David Sheff characterize his friend Charles?
10. What approach does David take in his stance with Nic about the topic of illicit drugs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy.
Essay Topic 2
Examine David Sheff’s use of characterization methods to portray his own family members. What effect do these characterization methods have on the memoir's inherent themes and messages?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the motif of sound within David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy.
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