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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 language did the author study in Chapter 10?

2. What transformation did Dagmar go through in Chapter 11?

3. What was the author barely conscious of in Chapter 10?

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

5. What was the author's boss's name in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the author's jobs when he was 16 years old living in Florida?

2. What does Chapter 10 narrate?

3. Describe the author's experience hitch-hiking.

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

5. Where did the author attend school in Europe?

6. Where did Dagmar go in Chapter 11?

7. Where did the author travel during the spring, and what did he find out there in Chapter 19?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what Conroy suggests about his school and the higher the class in the building meant to him. What is his metaphor in the school building's description?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's "experimental" boarding school, Freemont, and then describe what happened to Ligget and the outcome of it.

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