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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. Right before Jasper goes into sixth grade and Daisy goes into fourth grade, David experiences what type of medical emergency?

2. What is the title of the article David writes for the New York Times Magazine?

3. Once David finds out that Nic's phone has been pinging against towers in three states, whom does he call for help?

4. What is the name for an object, situation, person, or feeling that creates overwhelming feeling of craving in an addict?

5. The family has to euthanize which of their dogs when he gets cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Sheff's use of the broken suitcase image to indicate the injured nature of his post-hemorrhage brain.

2. For what reason does Sheff warn the parents of addicted children to avoid certain music?

3. How late is Nic when he sets a lunch date with his father at the restaurant Steps of Rome?

4. What are the definitions of priming and cuing, behaviors that can lead to relapse?

5. For what purpose does Sheff use the shark and the cormorant simile?

6. How much more likely are addicts to have underlying mental health issues, in relation to the general population?

7. What major medical emergency befalls David Sheff just before Nic's eighteenth birthday?

8. What does Sheff mean when he calls addiction an "equal-opportunity affliction" (177)?

9. What is the main element of twelve-step recovery programs that Nic rejects?

10. What new hobby does Nic take up around the time when David regains his memory after surviving a cerebral hemorrhage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the connection Sheff draws between his own experiences as the father of an addict and the state of the opioid crisis plaguing twenty-first century America.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy.

Essay Topic 3

What is the David Sheff's message regarding the shift in worldview that needs to occur within United States government with regard to the addiction crisis?

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