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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Jonathan when the New York School chapter begins?
(a) In an airplane circling Topeka.
(b) Taiwan.
(c) New York.
(d) In an airplane circling JFK.

2. What advice that Evanson gave to Adam had Jane received from her supervisor?
(a) Stop nodding in time with speech.
(b) Stop twirling your hair.
(c) Make eye contact with people.
(d) Use obscure references for credibility.

3. Why was a particular person central to including Darren?
(a) Out of progressive optimistic values.
(b) Out of spite.
(c) Because he enjoyed mocking him.
(d) To atone for having hit him once.

4. What was Jonathan’s reaction to paying for a sex act at the bath house?
(a) It made him proud.
(b) It made him miserable.
(c) It filled him with guilt.
(d) It made him mean.

5. What event of Jane’s did the Phelpses show up to protest?
(a) A keynote address.
(b) A public discussion.
(c) A reading.
(d) A lecture on psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Jane see that her Christmas gift was not, in fact, special?

2. What does Adam say it means to be a subject in a supermarket?

3. What was the purple cow lyric used for?

4. What was Jane told made her Christmas gift special?

5. How long does the narrator tell the reader it will take Darren to make the walk he thinks will be two hours?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the social scene Darren hung out in?

2. In what condition did Darren wake up at Clinton Lake?

3. What observations does Adam make about American culture when he is in the supermarket with his mother and grandmother?

4. What is the difference between extemp and Lincoln-Douglass debate?

5. How did the time at the roller rink return seven years later in the basement at Jason’s party?

6. How does Jonathan describe the conditions where he grew up in Taiwan?

7. In what ways did Adam and his friend shift their aggression into the realm of language?

8. What is the one situation that holds numerous times together in the “New York School” chapter?

9. What explanation does Jonathan give for why his parents and the diplomats drank so much in Taiwan?

10. What advice did Evanson give Adam at the debate tournament in Minneapolis?

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