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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. According to Chapter 1, what does a first person biography offer?

2. What was the atmosphere like at the experimental boarding school, according to the author?

3. Where does the prologue take place?

4. Where did Jean travel to get the things he needed to begin his plans of making money in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe who Tobey was?

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

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

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

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

9. What did the author notice about Jean in the long drive in Chapter 3?

10. What do Chapters 4 and 5 represent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explain what Conroy's acceptance into Haverford means to him and the overall theme of "Stop-Time".

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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