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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 charm the people he met at dinner in Chapter 15?

2. What did the author blurt out to another person in Chapter 15?

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

4. What was the author awkwardly questioned about in Chapter 10?

5. Who was born at the beginning of Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the author's jobs when he was 16 years old living in Florida?

3. What was the author threatened with in Chapter 10?

4. What did Jean do to try and get Dagmar back?

5. Where did the author attend school in Europe?

6. What did Dagmar do upon her return home from Denmark?

7. Where did Dagmar go in Chapter 11?

8. Who did the author live with after Dagmar left?

9. What did the author contemplate doing the summer they returned to New York in Chapter 9?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss how the author's friendship with Tobey in their adolescence to their teenage years changes, and discuss what happened to bring about this change.

Essay Topic 2

Detail the significance of the author's patronizing friend he recalls in Chapter 13 to his life and the role Dagmar played in this event.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and explain when the reader of "Stop-Time" is able to get a context of when the events of the novel take place in relation to the present day context of the author's life.

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