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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. What were the author's two short-lived jobs in the visit he described in Chapter 14?

2. Who waved to the author in Chapter 17?

3. What does Chapter 10 narrate?

4. Who was the author's second ride with in Chapter 11?

5. What was the author habitually late for in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where was the author going in Chapter 17?

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

5. What did the friend patronize the author about in Chapter 13?

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

7. Where did the author attend school in Europe?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Conroy's acceptance into Haverford means to him and the overall theme of "Stop-Time".

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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