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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say people like Darren learn to differentiate themselves in this country?
(a) Through creativity.
(b) Through business.
(c) Through violence.
(d) Through crime.

2. How does the narrator characterize the state of American culture?
(a) Lost boys without parents.
(b) Seven lost generations.
(c) Adolescence without end.
(d) Relentlessly cruel innovation.

3. What was Darren’s mother afraid any confrontation with Darren might lead to?
(a) Darren’s suicide.
(b) Darren’s departure.
(c) Darren beating her up.
(d) Jail and death for Darren.

4. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s relationship with the part of his brain that was always composing rap lyrics and making arguments?
(a) It clicked on whenever it wanted.
(b) He could not turn it off.
(c) He had to meditate to activate it.
(d) It clicked on when he was stressed.

5. Why does Jonathan say that he and his friends could not actually go anywhere when he lived abroad?
(a) They were never admitted into local culture.
(b) They could not escape their Americanness.
(c) They were disliked by locals.
(d) They did not know any local languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was a particular person central to including Darren?

2. Why did Adam prefer poetry to debate?

3. What was the special gift Jane received instead of a bicycle for Christmas, as a child?

4. Who was Adam shopping with when he ran into one of Reynolds’ friends?

5. Who did Amber thank for dinner before Jane’s event?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the social scene Darren hung out in?

2. How did Adam lose his L-D debate?

3. What advice did Evanson give Adam at the debate tournament in Minneapolis?

4. What is the one situation that holds numerous times together in the “New York School” chapter?

5. What is the narrator’s relationship with Darren’s hike back from Clinton Lake?

6. What is the difference between extemp and Lincoln-Douglass debate?

7. What observations does Adam make about American culture when he is in the supermarket with his mother and grandmother?

8. How does Adam characterize his circle’s relationship with Darren?

9. Who are the Phelpses and what was their relation to Jane Gordon?

10. In what condition did Darren wake up at Clinton Lake?

(see the answer keys)

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