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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 is described at the end of Chapter 5?

2. What are Chapters 2 and 3 examples of in relation to most autobiographies?

3. What did the author and his family salvage in Chapter 6?

4. In Chapter 5, who was the pianist jealous over?

5. Where did Jean travel to get the things he needed to begin his plans of making money in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened to the author when he went with Tobey's family.

2. When and who did the author visit in Florida?

3. Describe what the prologue does for the reader.

4. What does the author say interrupted his life, in the prologue?

5. Where did the author sleep in Chapter 4, and why?

6. Who moved into the author's apartment in Chapter 5?

7. What did the author notice about Jean in the long drive in Chapter 3?

8. What did Jean realize he needed in order to make money in Florida in Chapter 2?

9. Where did the author and his family leave and go to at the beginning of Chapter 2?

10. Where did Dagmar and Jean work during the winter time in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how a plot is more applicable to fiction and a story is more applicable to an autobiography by using examples of Conroy's autobiography, "Stop-Time".

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss how Conroy presents his experiences with Tobey as childlike fun, but then begins to change his tone when remembering his more sexually related events and how this is congruent with his coming of age.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the conditions of the author's life after Dagmar left to go to Denmark and how the conditions support the author's way of believing life should be lived with disruption of order.

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