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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. How does Chapter 7 end?

2. Where did the author go at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. How did the author feel about their arrival in Chapter 4?

4. What are Chapters 2 and 3 examples of in relation to most autobiographies?

5. When did the author and Tobey begin to explore the English language's crudities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author and Tobey discover in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 2, who does the author narrate having a frightening encounter with?

3. What does the author describe that he and Tobey found together as kids?

4. What does the author say interrupted his life, in the prologue?

5. What happened to Tobey after the author went with him and his family?

6. In Chapter 2, why did the author and his family move, and what did they do?

7. What happened at the school the author attended in Chapter 1?

8. What did the author notice about Jean in the long drive in Chapter 3?

9. Describe what happened to the author when he went with Tobey's family.

10. What was the result of Ligget's trial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the title of Chapter 16, "Losing My Cherry", to the events of the chapter and how the events of the chapter are another transition from one phase of life to the next, proving Conroy's maturation.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss how the author's friendship with Tobey in their adolescence to their teenage years changes, and discuss what happened to bring about this change.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the scene with the elevator breakdown to Alison's emotional and mental instability.

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