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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 does the author describe at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What are the contents of Chapters 4 and 5 examples of?

3. How many months pregnant was Dagmar in Chapter 6?

4. Where was the Southbury Training School?

5. What does the author mention his life was often interrupted by, in the prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the result of Ligget's trial?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe what the prologue does for the reader.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare and contrast the scene with the elevator breakdown to Alison's emotional and mental instability.

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