Boy Erased Test | Final Test - Hard

Garrard Conley
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Boy Erased Test | Final Test - Hard

Garrard Conley
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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 snacks does Conley consider buying on his trip with his mother?

2. What was Conley's paternal grandfather like?

3. Where does Conley go to walk at night?

4. What does Dominique cal her brother Charles?

5. Whom does Conley visualize sitting in the Lie Chair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What novel does Conley's mother read, at his suggestion?

2. Who is the boy with whom Conley admits to having fooled around during junior high?

3. What does Conley enter into his cell phone while on a trip with his mother?

4. What film does Conley go to see with his friends from college?

5. What did Conley do as a child with the cotton modules?

6. Who was the first boy that Conley kissed?

7. What arrives in the mail to Conley's home in the beginning of Part II?

8. On what pretext does Conley's mother bring him to the doctor's office?

9. For what do Charles and Dominique have a scholarship to college?

10. What is the name of the chair in which Love In Action participants take turns sitting in the final chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conley spends much time describing the Love In Action handbook. Write an essay describing the contents of this handbook, as well as Conley's reaction to these contents. Identify the handbook's major tenets or guiding principles, and try to determine Conleys' reactions to each. You might also consider whether Conley's reactions change over time. Use evidence based on the text.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Homosexuality is described by Conley in the context of his memoir; however, it is experienced by several other individuals described therein. Write an essay in which you describe how Conley develops the theme of homosexuality through the lens of other individuals. Are their experiences similar or different? Write an essay in which you compare and contrast different people's experience with homosexuality, and how Conley uses their experiences to develop homosexuality as a theme.

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