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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 did John's father injure John's brother Chris?

2. How does John rationalize his reaction to Betsy's news?

3. Who is Chuckie?

4. Which rock band did John NOT work with?

5. What warning did Jim give the firemen who responded to the fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the catastrophe Jim Boughton and John created.

2. Describe John Robison as a child.

3. How did John's life change when he started to go on the road with rock bands?

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

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

6. Describe John's relation with Chris.

7. What was inappropriate about John's smiling at his mother's friend Betsy's news?

8. Describe John's parents' relationship.

9. What problems does John say he had playing with other children?

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

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

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

How do you think John's brother Chris would change John's account of events?

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