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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 Dave do before the girl can tell the story to anyone else?

2. What do the kids help Dave do?

3. Who carries Dave and Beth's mother to the car?

4. Where is Dave's family home?

5. Where is Toph sleeping?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Chapter 4.

2. Describe Dave's father's funeral.

3. What different directions do the characters take in Chapter 2?

4. How does Dave help his mother in the first chapter?

5. What problems does Dave have cooking?

6. How does Dave's disorganization affect Toph?

7. What does Dave do when he gets lonely in Chapter 5?

8. How does Dave feel when he finally leaves Toph with a babysitter?

9. Summarize the second chapter.

10. Why does Dave feel uncomfortable when he takes Toph to Little League games?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Dave's family.

1) How important is Dave's family to him? Are there some members of his family that were more important than others?

2) What would have happened to Dave if he did not have his family around when his parents died?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss with the students first person point of view. Why do the students think first person point of view is not necessarily reliable? What moments in the book do the students think are not so reliable and why? With the students, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the first person point of view.

Essay Topic 3

Eggers uses fantasy elements in his memoir.

1) Why does Eggers uses fantasy elements in a non-fiction book?

2) When does he use fantasy elements, and why?

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