Stop-time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Frank Conroy
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Stop-time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Frank Conroy
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author pretend to do on the car ride home in Chapter 6?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Be mad.
(c) Sing.
(d) Be happy.

2. In Chapter 3, what did Jean need first in order to manifest his idea of making money?
(a) Seed money.
(b) Equipment.
(c) A bulldozer.
(d) Land.

3. What purpose does the initial introduction to "Stop-Time's" supporting characters serve for other chapters?
(a) Gives background information on the author.
(b) Supports the author's initial character.
(c) Gives a partial perspective, in which they unfold later in the text in great detail.
(d) Takes away from the author's main purpose for having them in the text.

4. According to the end of Chapter 1, what is significant about anarchy?
(a) It is defined and refuted.
(b) It has control.
(c) The author presents a paradoxical view of it.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does the prologue offer the reader?
(a) A background on the author's family.
(b) An excuse to read more.
(c) Describe's the author's visions.
(d) A sense of the author as a human being.

6. How did the author feel about their arrival in Chapter 4?
(a) He dreaded it.
(b) He was excited.
(c) He was scared.
(d) He was anxious.

7. Why did Tobey have to accompany his father to work in Chapter 6?
(a) To keep him company.
(b) To keep him sober.
(c) To work for him.
(d) To manage the fields.

8. Which of the following was NOT an outcome of Ligget's punishment?
(a) He never went back to school.
(b) He was taken to the hospital with a broken jaw.
(c) He got a stomach virus.
(d) The other boys were never punished.

9. What does the author feel is necessary to be interrupted?
(a) People speaking.
(b) Incorrect grammar.
(c) The order of the universe.
(d) The order of life.

10. Why were the author and his family traveling at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) To sell their car.
(b) To start a new life.
(c) To travel and sing together.
(d) To visit his grandmother.

11. What did the author and his family salvage in Chapter 6?
(a) A plant.
(b) Their car.
(c) Usable wood.
(d) A newspaper article.

12. What did the person who told the author he lost force him to do in Chapter 6?
(a) To feel his private parts.
(b) To leave the park.
(c) To run his errands.
(d) To give Tobey his Cotton candy.

13. What was the prize for the competition the author and Tobey competed in?
(a) Free tickets to other rides at the carnival.
(b) Cotton candy.
(c) A silver pistol.
(d) A stuffed animal.

14. When did the author and Tobey begin to explore the English language's crudities?
(a) In Tobey's bedroom.
(b) On a lunch break.
(c) On a hiking trip.
(d) During a camping trip.

15. What did the author and Tobey ride when the author went with Tobey's family in Chapter 6?
(a) Go carts.
(b) The Scrambler.
(c) A Ferris wheel.
(d) Bumper cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe his time with his friend in Chapter 3?

2. When was the author confronted by a teacher at Southbury?

3. Who of the following is NOT mentioned being with the author at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. According to Chapter 3, what did the author and his friend do in their free time?

5. What does the author describe grew between the pianist and Jean?

(see the answer keys)

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