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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. A child development specialist tells David that the greatest changes take place in children's brains before they are how old and then again when they are teenagers?
2. About what topic does David educate Nic and his friends when he drives them to school each day?
3. When thinking about how Nic is unlike the children his age affected by addiction, what is NOT an adjective David applies to Nic?
4. David relates that Charles died on the eve of what day?
5. Part II begins with an epigraph from which play by William Shakespeare?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what purpose does David Sheff use an allusion to the film Welcome to the Dollhouse at the opening of Chapter 6?
2. How does David react when he finds a baggie of marijuana in Nic's room?
3. What advice do many "drug counselors tell parents" of David's "generation" (52) with respect to drug use and honesty?
4. How does David react when Nic offers him a hit of a marijuana joint when they are out on a walk together?
5. What kinds of contradictory advice does David receive about Nic when Nic is getting into trouble as a teenager?
6. What is the first altercation between David and Nic about Nic's use of substances?
7. What is the strongest evidence of Nic's negative feelings about his parents' divorce?
8. What reason does Sheff provide for his decision to forego foreshadowing within the memoir?
9. Describe the setting depicted in the introduction.
10. Discuss Sheff's purpose for providing statistics about methamphetamine use in the introduction.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Read the interview included in the back of David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy. Write an essay explaining the connection between one of the author’s answers and a major theme presented within the text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the motif of sound within David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy.
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