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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. Where did the author go at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. What did the person who told the author he lost force him to do in Chapter 6?

3. Where was the author's apartment in Chapter 5?

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

5. What does the author describe in the prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does the author describe the place where he attended school, in Chapter 1?

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

7. What happened at the end of Chapter 1?

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

9. What does the author describe that he and Tobey found together as kids?

10. What happened to Tobey after the author went with him and his family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss Conroy's purpose for switching from present to past tenses throughout his memories in "Stop-Time".

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the author's recollections in his writing display a gained insight from the time the events actually took place to the time in which he writes "Stop-Time" by using some examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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".

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