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

2. What was the verdict of Ligget's trial?

3. In Chapter 5, who was the pianist jealous over?

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

5. When did the author and Tobey begin to explore the English language's crudities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe who Tobey was?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the author's relationship to Jessica and how she is the one person who brings about a selflessness within the author that no one else was able to demonstrate prior to her birth.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how a plot is more applicable to fiction and a story is more applicable to an autobiography by using examples of Conroy's autobiography, "Stop-Time".

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