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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 purpose does the initial introduction to "Stop-Time's" supporting characters serve for other chapters?

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

3. What other memory does the author also narrate at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

5. When did the peak of the pianist and Jean's relationship occur?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do Chapters 4 and 5 represent?

6. Describe who Tobey was?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explain what Conroy suggests about his school and the higher the class in the building meant to him. What is his metaphor in the school building's description?

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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