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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 did the author's father die?

2. What has the author gained between the time he writes about these events to the time in which they actually took place?

3. What writing style does the author repeat throughout the book?

4. What is described at the end of Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe what the prologue does for the reader.

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss and analyze how the policeman and disillusionment to the author's archetypal life pattern relate to a typical emotional state found in teenagers.

Essay Topic 3

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

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