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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. Who is Chuckie?

2. What happened to John's mother after she separated from John's father?

3. How deep was the deepest hole John dropped Chris in?

4. How long did John take to finish the year-long electronics course he was enrolled in?

5. How did Jim start a fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John's parents' relationship.

2. Describe John's attempts to act normal.

3. Describe John's mechanical abilities.

4. Describe the deterioration of John's parents' marriage in chapter 7,

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

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

7. What was the result of John's father's drinking?

8. Describe John's habit of digging holes.

9. Describe John's parents' strange behavior.

10. What was John's relationship with Porsches after this first encounter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the humorous tone John Robison takes throughout his memoir? What does he gain, by it? What does he lose?

Essay Topic 2

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate "Look Me in the Eye"--did you resist the story, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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