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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. What does Victor initially think Denny is holding when he arrives at Victor's house the first time?

2. What piece of illegal contraband does Denny bring to work to show Victor?

3. Who does Paige Marshall say has told her about Victor's sexual encounters?

4. What does the narrator claim all of his co-workers are addicted to?

5. Why does Victor go to see Dr. Marshall in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Victor do to try and learn his mother's secret?

2. What does Victor know about Paige Marshall in the first part of this book?

3. Discuss Victor's Mother's insecurities when she picked him up from the mall.

4. What does Ida do while walking around neighborhoods to get high for free?

5. Why does Denny have a rock when he arrives at Victor's house?

6. Why does Paige Marshall assume Victor is not attracted to her?

7. Why does Victor force himself to choke on his dinner?

8. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

9. In what case does Dr. Marshall tell Victor that he may be his own father?

10. What does Victor do when the girl leaves the front desk at St. Anthony's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Victor wants to know who his father is, so Paige Marshall reads his mother's diary.

a. What does Paige tell Victor the Diary says about him?

b. In what ways does Victor reject this news?

c. In what ways does Victor embrace this news?

Essay Topic 2

Victor and Denny get into an argument about what Denny is building.

a. What is Victor's side of the argument?

b. What is Denny's side of the argument?

c. How does each character's side of the argument relate to the theme of freedom?

Essay Topic 3

Victor keeps retuning to flashbacks of himself as a child with Ida. Analyze the relationship between Ida and Victor when he was a child.

a. Did they have a good relationship?

1. How does Victor know how to find his mother?

2. How does he attempt to get away from her?

b. It is revealed that Ida is not Victor's birth mother at the end of the book. Compare and contrast Ida's mother-like behaviors with her inabilities as a parent.

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