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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 piece of literature did Conley read as a young adult?

2. What is the name Conley father used for any follower of Christ?

3. What happened when Conley went hunting as a child with his father?

4. How many pages are the Love In Action handbook?

5. What is Conley's mother's first impression about the Love In Action facility in the first chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Conley's father do for a living?

2. What is a Moral Inventory?

3. Who joins Conley and his father at their destination in Chapter 6, "Prisoner's Cinema"?

4. Where do Conley and his father travel at the end of the first section?

5. How many steps are in the Love In Action program?

6. Which relative do Conley's parents go and visit in a flashback?

7. Who is Conley's girlfriend's brother, and how does he behave?

8. What is the name of Conley's first roommate?

9. What did Love In Action participant, "T" try to do?

10. In what year did Conley begin his ex-gay therapy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conley's memoir is structured in a very unique way. His flashbacks and his two-week experience at Love In Action's "The Source" program dovetail until he walks out of the program. Write an essay in which you explain how this structure contributes to the writer's story. How does it help the reader understand Conley's healing process? Could Conley have used a different structure? You may comment on how the structure contributed to your reading experience, but use evidence from the text to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Conley loves to write in his Moleskin journal. He claims that he wants to be a writer when he grows up. What attracts Conley to the act of writing? Write an essay in which you explain Conley's relationship to his writing, explaining how the writing makes him feel. Use examples from the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

The memoir is a unique genre, in which an individual's autobiography is structured to demonstrate how an experience changed him or her. Memoir is understood to be nonfictional; however, all narrators are reliable to different extents. Write an essay in which you discuss whether Conley is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Use examples from the text to support your response.

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