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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. How many calories a day does Conley eat the summer before college?

2. What does Conley say when he is moving boxes into his dorm room, in the absence of his parents?

3. Which of the following is required by the Love In Action dress code for women?

4. What are False Images?

5. What work does Conley read while in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Conley and his mother stay while Conley attends Love In Action?

2. To which mythological character from Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" does Conley liken himself?

3. What are the so-called "clobber passages"?

4. How did Conley first learn about sex?

5. Who is Conley's first girlfriend?

6. What does Conley's father do for a living?

7. What is a genogram?

8. How long is the Source program in which Conley participates?

9. What is the name of the youth group whose service Conley attends?

10. Where does Conley's father bring on their trip at the end of Part I for those to whom they are preaching?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The memoir is a unique genre, in which an individual's autobiography is structured to demonstrate how an experience changed him or her. Memoir is understood to be nonfictional; however, all narrators are reliable to different extents. Write an essay in which you discuss whether Conley is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Use examples from the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Conley's memoir is structured in a very unique way. His flashbacks and his two-week experience at Love In Action's "The Source" program dovetail until he walks out of the program. Write an essay in which you explain how this structure contributes to the writer's story. How does it help the reader understand Conley's healing process? Could Conley have used a different structure? You may comment on how the structure contributed to your reading experience, but use evidence from the text to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Conley has a few important friends and colleagues from many stages of the period of his life described in his narration (high school, college, and Love In Action). Select one individual who can be considered Conley's peer (i.e. not his parents) and describe both how their relationship develops, and how Conley is affected by the relationship. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

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