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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. Which of the following does the author NOT use to describe the sun in Chapter 6?

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

3. What does the author describe in the prologue?

4. What does the author describe being blurred in the final section of Chapter 1?

5. Where did the author go with Tobey and his family in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Tobey and the author do when the author went with Tobey's family?

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

4. Describe what the prologue does for the reader.

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

6. Describe who Tobey was?

7. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

8. What happened at the school the author attended in Chapter 1?

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

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

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.

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

Explain how the events and descriptions of Conroy's memories are an example of a "coming of age" story.

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