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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 did the author go the day he parted with his friend in Chapter 3?

2. Who told the author he lost, at the game in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 3, what did Jean do?

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

5. What writing style does the author repeat throughout the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the author say about Donald?

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

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

8. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the conditions of the author's life after Dagmar left to go to Denmark and how the conditions support the author's way of believing life should be lived with disruption of order.

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

Explain what Conroy's acceptance into Haverford means to him and the overall theme of "Stop-Time".

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