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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 trickiest part of doubling-up, as Hamper and Dale did?
2. What was the most unusual thing about Bob-A-Lou?
3. How old was Hamper the first time he went to a car factory?
4. When did Hamper's great-grandfather begin working in the car factory?
5. Why did Hamper never beat his dad up when he was being lectured?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How is Hamper's portrayal of his mother pathetic at times? Is it a fair character description?
3. 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?
4. Hamper ends Chapter 3 with the sentence, "The money was right, even if we weren't" (pg 43). What does this mean?
5. What kind of a person was Franklin? How was his personality different than expected? How did he act as a sort of prototype for Hamper's own life?
6. Who or what was Hamper's greatest enemy at work? How did he use his new attitude about work to combat the enemy?
7. How does Hamper describe the Cab Shop the first time he goes there? What about the description is the most informative about the scene?
8. Who were Lightnin' and Same-O? What did their lives say about Hamper's future?
9. What kind of person was Joanie? Use Hamper's references to her to create a character description.
10. 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?
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 role did the time clock play in Hamper's life? How did it become his worst enemy?
Essay Topic 3
What is the effect of Hamper's family tree as the reader moves through the book? Why would he give such detail about his extended family work history?
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