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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 was the cause John identified for problems with the Microvision game?

2. What skill did John's second wife have that his first wife did not have?

3. How many jobs did John move through in the six years after he married Little Bear?

4. What arrest was made in connection with John's prank?

5. What behavior does John say disconcerted people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What hope did John nourish, as he moved back to Amherst?

2. Describe the job John took when he returned to the U.S.

3. What was John afraid of when his son was born?

4. What does John get from his job as a sound and lighting engineer?

5. How does John characterize people with Asperger's syndrome?

6. What recommendation does John make about marriage?

7. Describe the birth of John's son.

8. What kinds of names does John give people?

9. Describe John's feelings about working in a corporation.

10. What happened when John's work was appropriated by another engineer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the humorous tone John Robison takes throughout his memoir? What does he gain, by it? What does he lose?

Essay Topic 2

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 3

What distinguishes this book from a novel? Does it matter that these events all supposedly happened? Would it change your opinion of the book if you found out that John Robison had exaggerated or created events?

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