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

2. What was the prize for the competition the author and Tobey competed in?

3. What does the author describe in the final section of Chapter 1?

4. What was the name of the experimental boarding school the author attended in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 3, what did Jean do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the author describe the place where he attended school, in Chapter 1?

2. Who does the author recall in the first chapter, and what does he recall?

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

4. What did Tobey and the author do when the author went with Tobey's family?

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

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

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

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

9. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

10. What does the author say about Donald?

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

Detail the significance of the author's patronizing friend he recalls in Chapter 13 to his life and the role Dagmar played in this event.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how the author's adolescence's order was interrupted constantly through his recollections of life's events, and give examples of some of his life's interruptions.

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