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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 band member did the author meet in Chapter 15?

2. What language did the author study in Chapter 10?

3. Who did Jean write a letter to in Chapter 11?

4. What was the author's boss's name in Chapter 15?

5. Which of the following is NOT a description of Tobey when the author visited him in the trip he described in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author's acceptance seal his "coming of age" story?

2. Why did the author decide to return home after running away?

3. What did Dagmar confirm to the author after his friend patronized him?

4. Where was the author going in Chapter 17?

5. Where did the author travel during the spring, and what did he find out there in Chapter 19?

6. Where did Dagmar go in Chapter 11?

7. Describe what was significant about the day at work in Chapter 10?

8. Who was born in Chapter 11?

9. Who did the author meet on the boat in Chapter 17?

10. What was the latest money making idea Jean had in Chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss Conroy's purpose for switching from present to past tenses throughout his memories in "Stop-Time".

Essay Topic 2

Describe and explain the way Conroy interconnects his narrative through the events and reactions to the events as if he remembers them in what seems like were random experiences.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how the author's adolescence's order was interrupted constantly through his recollections of life's events, and give examples of some of his life's interruptions.

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