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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 Denny ask Victor if he can do after showing Victor the advertisement?

2. What does Ida Mancini drink when walking through neighborhoods?

3. What is the name of the narrator's friend?

4. What connection does Victor make about Colonial Dunsboro and St. Anthony's?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the newspaper advertisement say that Denny shows Victor?

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

3. What happens when Mrs. Tsunimitsu recognizes Victor as someone her son saved from choking?

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

5. Explain the connection Victor makes in Chapter 15 when he and his mother are in the stalled car and the pornography he saw as a child.

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

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

8. Describe Victor's relationship with Nico.

9. What happens when Victor is questioned at the police station as a boy?

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

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

People with addictions are often experts of denial. Victor is no exception.

a. Explain how Victor's explanation of step 4 of his 12 step program could be seen as denial.

b. Explain how denial consumes Victor after Paige tells him his mother thinks he is the second coming of Christ.

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