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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. Where did the author go in the spring, in Chapter 18?

2. What did the second person the author hitchhiked with dream of being?

3. What was Dagmar doing when she made her confirmation to the author in Chapter 13?

4. What was the name of the Swedish girl the author had a restrained relationship with?

5. After Dagmar left, who moved in with the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was the author going in Chapter 17?

2. Describe the author's experience hitch-hiking.

3. Where does the author describe working in Chapter 15?

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

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

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

7. Where did the author attend school in Europe?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the title of Chapter 16, "Losing My Cherry", to the events of the chapter and how the events of the chapter are another transition from one phase of life to the next, proving Conroy's maturation.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the author's "experimental" boarding school, Freemont, and then describe what happened to Ligget and the outcome of it.

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