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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 did John like about being on the road with bands?

2. What made people think that John was a prodigy?

3. Why did John and his friends think the vehicle had been left in the woods?

4. What was the ultimate explanation for the vehicle in the woods?

5. Where did John get a job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John's parents' strange behavior.

2. How did John get to know Ace Frehley?

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

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

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

6. Describe John's departure from high school.

7. Describe John's relation with Chris.

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

9. Describe John's work as a sound engineer.

10. Describe John Robison as a child.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

What do you think was John Robison's main reason for writing this book? What evidence do you find, in the book, that this is his main reason? What other reasons might he have? Why do you think those reasons are less important?

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