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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What didn't John like about the Caribbean?
(a) He hated the climate.
(b) He missed his family.
(c) He missed his familiar foods.
(d) He was repulsed by the prevalence of drugs.

2. What made people think that John was a prodigy?
(a) His reading.
(b) His quick sense of humor.
(c) His musical ability.
(d) His photographic memory.

3. How does John describe the change in his father, in chapter 6?
(a) His father was becoming less predictable.
(b) His father was getting more easygoing.
(c) His father was turning senile.
(d) His father was becoming meaner.

4. How did John's driving lessons end?
(a) At his parents' house.
(b) At his grandmother's house.
(c) In a ditch.
(d) Safely back home.

5. What does John say he can now see about his father?
(a) That he was dying.
(b) That he was depressed.
(c) That he was sick.
(d) That he was profoundly unhappy in his marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say he can now see about his mother?

2. What symptoms did John develop during this time?

3. What did John learn to distinguish appropriate reactions from?

4. What did John come to believe about dogs?

5. What had Jim Boughton made from scratch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.

2. Why was the winter of 1978 good for John?

3. How did Rusty Nail change John's life?

4. What story does John say he told the proud parents whose children would be going to Harvard and Smith?

5. What was Jim Boughton's secret project?

6. How did John get to know Ace Frehley?

7. Describe John Robison as a child.

8. Describe John's parents' relationship.

9. What does John say he does to avoid his parents' troubles?

10. Describe John's relation with Chris.

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