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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 the name of the new school that combined all local Catholic high schools?
2. As told in Chapter Four, how much money did Hamper make while working at the factory?
3. When did Hamper's great-grandfather begin working in the car factory?
4. How had Hamper imagined his father's work before he saw it?
5. What happened one day when Hamper left journalism class on drugs?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who or what was Hamper's greatest enemy at work? How did he use his new attitude about work to combat the enemy?
2. How was Hamper's father an anomaly among fathers? Even at a young age, what was Hamper's opinion of him? How might this affect his own development in the future?
3. What kind of person was Joanie? Use Hamper's references to her to create a character description.
4. What story does Hamper tell involving Lesley Gore's music? How does this story show that Hamper, if only for an hour and twelve minutes, transcended the shop-rat mindset?
5. When did the GM assembly line begin to look like an attractive option to Hamper? How did this demonstrate a change in Hamper's thinking?
6. "I'm thinking that rock stars, even dead ones, don't come cheap" (pg xix). In the context of the Prologue, what does this quote mean?
7. What is Hamper's first exposure to the true culture of the Cab Shop? How did this dramatically change his attitude toward work?
8. How does Hamper describe the Cab Shop the first time he goes there? What about the description is the most informative about the scene?
9. At the end of Chapter 1, what did Hamper reveal about his hopes for the future? What insight did he show about the past?
10. What system did Dale and Hamper rig up at work? How did this again change Hamper's attitude toward his job?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who was Gino Donlan? Why did Hamper like him and why was he different from many other people in his same position? To answer this, you should compare him to other supervisors in the plant.
Essay Topic 2
What makes a good autobiography? Does Hamper's book fulfill those requirements? What are the pros and cons of a fictionalized life compared to an autobiography?
Essay Topic 3
Why did Hamper always remember the man who came late for the GM work call, the first time he worked at the factory (pg 32)? How might his thoughts about the incident have changed as he moved in and out of GM?
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