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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. Where does the prologue take place?

2. Who accompanies the author at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. Where was the author's apartment in Chapter 5?

4. What did the author and Tobey compete in, in Chapter 6?

5. Where did Jean travel to get the things he needed to begin his plans of making money in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the author afraid of the cabin in Chapter 4?

2. Who moved into the author's apartment in Chapter 5?

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

4. As a child, where did the author go in the winter time?

5. When and who did the author visit in Florida?

6. Where did the author and his family leave and go to at the beginning of Chapter 2?

7. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

8. Where did Dagmar and Jean work during the winter time in Chapter 4?

9. Where did the author go at the end of Chapter 7?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how Conroy's view of anarchy is paradoxical to the definition of anarchy and use some examples of the events in "Stop-Time" to support his definition.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss Conroy's purpose for switching from present to past tenses throughout his memories in "Stop-Time".

Essay Topic 3

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.

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