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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 John being paid to do?

2. What tool was John fascinated by?

3. How does John say his biology teacher treated him?

4. What did John put in the holes he dug at Halloween?

5. What was John Robison's reaction when his parents fought?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John's attempts to act normal.

2. Describe John's first encounter with a Porsche.

3. How did John get to know Ace Frehley?

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

5. Describe the beginning of John's career in electronics.

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

7. What does John say was his mother's reaction to the dissolution of her marriage?

8. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.

9. Describe John's habit of digging holes.

10. Describe John's parents' strange behavior.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

What are the main two or three themes in "Look Me in the Eye"? What ideas or images return again and again? Which are the most important themes? Why?

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