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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 does Chapter 5 describe?

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

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

4. How does the author describe Jean and Dagmar when he leaves them to go with Tobey's family in Chapter 6?

5. What was the name of the person the author mentioned being frightened by in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Alison at the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. Describe who Tobey was?

5. What did Jean realize he needed in order to make money in Florida in Chapter 2?

6. What do Chapters 4 and 5 represent?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the events and descriptions of Conroy's memories are an example of a "coming of age" story.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how Conroy presents his experiences with Tobey as childlike fun, but then begins to change his tone when remembering his more sexually related events and how this is congruent with his coming of age.

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