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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 was the author moving at the beginning of Chapter 9?

2. What was the author's early morning job in Chapter 10?

3. What did the author do in Chapter 11 after the person overstayed her welcome?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was born in Chapter 11?

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

6. Where did the author attend school in Europe?

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

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

9. What does the author describe at Chapter 10's conclusion?

10. Describe what happened between Jean and Dagmar while the author was in Europe.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the author's relationship to Jessica and how she is the one person who brings about a selflessness within the author that no one else was able to demonstrate prior to her birth.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how a plot is more applicable to fiction and a story is more applicable to an autobiography by using examples of Conroy's autobiography, "Stop-Time".

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