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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 does the author feel is necessary to be interrupted?

2. Why were the author and his family traveling at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. Where did the author take refuge after he and Tobey stopped exploring together?

4. How old was the author when his father died?

5. Who does the author remember at the beginning of Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

4. Describe the author's writing style in the first chapter.

5. What does the author say about Donald?

6. Where did the author sleep in Chapter 4, and why?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's relationship to Jessica and how she is the one person who brings about a selflessness within the author that no one else was able to demonstrate prior to her birth.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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