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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 did the author contemplate doing after the fruit stand failed in Chapter 9?

2. Which of the following is NOT a description of Tobey when the author visited him in the trip he described in Chapter 14?

3. What did the second person the author hitchhiked with dream of being?

4. What did the author's coworker Sid do?

5. What disrupted the author's surge of sexual energy on this particular day in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the author attend school in Europe?

2. What did Jean do to try and get Dagmar back?

3. What does the author describe at Chapter 10's conclusion?

4. Who did the author meet on the boat in Chapter 17?

5. What did the author contemplate doing the summer they returned to New York in Chapter 9?

6. Why did the author avoid going home for dinner after school in Chapter 13?

7. How does the author's acceptance seal his "coming of age" story?

8. Where does the author describe working in Chapter 15?

9. What was the author threatened with in Chapter 10?

10. Describe what happened between Jean and Dagmar while the author was in Europe.

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

Analyze and explain the importance of the author's first recalled memory of the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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