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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 does Adam say it means to be a subject in a supermarket?
2. How does the narrator characterize Darren?
3. Where was Darren when he finally called his mother collect, to come get him?
4. What was Darren’s inclusion a joke on, according to Adam?
5. Why does Jonathan say that he and his friends could not actually go anywhere when he lived abroad?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Jonathan’s relationship with Sima begin?
2. What is the one situation that holds numerous times together in the “New York School” chapter?
3. How does the narrator characterize Darren as a roller skater?
4. What is the importance of the painted tissue box?
5. What is the narrator’s relationship with Darren’s hike back from Clinton Lake?
6. How did the time at the roller rink return seven years later in the basement at Jason’s party?
7. What motivated Darren to throw the cue ball at the girl?
8. In what ways did Adam and his friend shift their aggression into the realm of language?
9. What observations does Adam make about American culture when he is in the supermarket with his mother and grandmother?
10. What was Jonathan’s experience in the bathhouse, and how did it affect him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for The Topeka School? What is the ideal reader for The Topeka School likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is this book trying to teach its reader?
Essay Topic 2
In what way does The Topeka School serve as equipment for living? How does it help you evaluate claims in the real world, and make decisions? What kinds of decisions would this book likely help you make?
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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