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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. Why was Robert often angry when he got his check?
2. During his first stint at GM, what part of the cars did Hamper work on?
3. Why did Hamper like spending time at Joanie's house?
4. What was the name of Hamper's first supervisor?
5. When Hamper's dad left, what was the only information his family had?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the end of Chapter 1, what did Hamper reveal about his hopes for the future? What insight did he show about the past?
2. When Hamper tells the story of people who disagree with the shop-rats' drinking, he writes much of the story in capital letters. What literary effect does this visual change have on the story?
3. How does Hamper describe the Cab Shop the first time he goes there? What about the description is the most informative about the scene?
4. What kind of person was Joanie? Use Hamper's references to her to create a character description.
5. 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?
6. How did poetry temporarily draw Hamper out of his slide toward the factory? How might this have paved the way for more writing in the future?
7. To what does Hamper attribute his success at the beginning of high school? How does this fit into his plans for his life?
8. What role did Hamper's mother play in his life?
9. What pattern emerged in junior-high that led Hamper to consider the life of a shop-rat? How did he begin to identify with his family who had worked in the factory?
10. "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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Roy's crackup prefigure Hamper's own mental breakdown? What role did Hamper play on Roy's story, and how did Roy's compare to his own?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Several times throughout the book, Hamper gives foreshadowing of his mental breakdown. Where are these references? Do they prepare the reader for what is coming?
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