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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 was missing from the thing John and his friends found in the woods?
2. What did John's grandfather let him do?
3. What astonished John about Jim Boughton's creation?
4. What does John say became more difficult as her got older?
5. Who took care of John and Chris when their mother was hospitalized?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe John's habit of digging holes.
2. How did John's life change when he started to go on the road with rock bands?
3. Describe John's first encounter with a Porsche.
4. How did Rusty Nail change John's life?
5. What was the result of John's father's drinking?
6. Describe Dr. Finch's strange behavior.
7. Describe the beginning of John's career in electronics.
8. What was John's relationship with Porsches after this first encounter?
9. Describe John's departure from high school.
10. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
How trustworthy is John Robison as a narrator? Do you believe what he says, or would you expect the facts to come out differently, if someone ever wrote a biography of him?
Essay Topic 3
Debate the proposition that John is often making fun of himself throughout his memoir.
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