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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 and his family go at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

3. How does the author describe his time with his friend in Chapter 3?

4. When was the author confronted by a teacher at Southbury?

5. According to Chapter 4, why did the author have to go to the location he did?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Dagmar and Donald go together?

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

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

7. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the author's recollections in his writing display a gained insight from the time the events actually took place to the time in which he writes "Stop-Time" by using some examples from the text.

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

Discuss the author's "experimental" boarding school, Freemont, and then describe what happened to Ligget and the outcome of it.

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