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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the prologue, when did the author find himself racing home?
(a) In the middle of the night.
(b) After school.
(c) After work.
(d) Before dinner.

2. Who of the following was NOT an important person to the author's childhood?
(a) The author's mom.
(b) Alison.
(c) Jean.
(d) Tobey.

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

4. What did the author fear about Southbury Training School?
(a) The hallways.
(b) The people that lived there.
(c) The attendants.
(d) The people that lived there and the attendants.

5. What does the author describe being blurred in the final section of Chapter 1?
(a) The author's perspective.
(b) The author's memory and present life.
(c) The author's opinion.
(d) The author's vision.

6. What writing style does the author repeat throughout the book?
(a) Switching from past to present tenses.
(b) Switching from 1st to 3rd person.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) A journal style.

7. What are Chapters 2 and 3 examples of in relation to most autobiographies?
(a) It is of the author's persepctive.
(b) A broader narrative over a personal one.
(c) A more personal narrative over a braoder one.
(d) A deeper insight to other people's feelings.

8. How old was the author when his father died?
(a) 14 years old.
(b) 15 years old.
(c) 11 years old.
(d) 12 years old.

9. Where was the experimental boarding school the author describes in Chapter 1?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) England.
(c) Jacksonville, Fl.
(d) Ft. Lauderdale.

10. Where did the author go with Tobey and his family in Chapter 6?
(a) To dinner.
(b) A county fair.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The beach.

11. What was the name of the person the author mentioned being frightened by in Chapter 2?
(a) Jean.
(b) Vinny.
(c) Victor.
(d) He gives no name.

12. In Chapter 5, who was the pianist jealous over?
(a) Tobey.
(b) Alison.
(c) Jean.
(d) Dagmar.

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

14. In Chapter 3, what did the author note about Jean in their debate?
(a) He was witty.
(b) He was intellectually manipulative.
(c) He had little valid arguments.
(d) He was narrow-minded.

15. Who told the author he lost, at the game in Chapter 6?
(a) Jean.
(b) Tobey's dad.
(c) The man running the game.
(d) Tobey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Alison when the family left New York?

2. What does the author mention his life was often interrupted by, in the prologue?

3. In Chapter 3, who said "I feel like I've been on this trip all my life"?

4. What purpose does the initial introduction to "Stop-Time's" supporting characters serve for other chapters?

5. Which of the following is NOT a description made by the author about the pianist?

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