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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. How does John characterize his relationship with the musicians?

2. What did John design for Mick at Britro?

3. Where was John's creation tested?

4. What allowed John to get away from home?

5. What does John say he taught himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John's relation with Chris.

2. Describe John's departure from high school.

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

4. Describe John's parents' relationship.

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

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

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

8. Describe John's parents' strange behavior.

9. What did John like about being a clown?

10. What was Jim Boughton's secret project?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Debate the proposition that John is often making fun of himself throughout his memoir.

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

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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