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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. Who told the author he lost, at the game in Chapter 6?

2. How did Jean plan to make money in Chapter 3?

3. When did the author and Tobey begin to explore the English language's crudities?

4. What did the author and the other boys accuse Ligget of being?

5. Which of the following is NOT a description made by the author about the pianist?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, who does the author narrate having a frightening encounter with?

3. What was the result of Ligget's trial?

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

5. What did the author and Tobey discover in Chapter 6?

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

7. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

8. In Chapter 2, why did the author and his family move, and what did they do?

9. What does the author say about Donald?

10. Describe the author's writing style in the first chapter.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Detail the significance of the author's patronizing friend he recalls in Chapter 13 to his life and the role Dagmar played in this event.

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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