The Topeka School Test | Final Test - Medium

Ben Lerner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 157 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Topeka School Test | Final Test - Medium

Ben Lerner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 157 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How does the narrator characterize Darren?
(a) An animal.
(b) A baby.
(c) A pet.
(d) A man-child.

2. What was unique about the box Klaus gave Adam after Adam’s concussion?
(a) It had been painted by animals.
(b) It had a false bottom.
(c) It was imported from Iran.
(d) It belonged to him before the Holocaust.

3. How did this story about the special gift make Adam feel about Jane’s family?
(a) It made him sympathetic toward his grandfather.
(b) It made him impatient with Jane’s gullibility.
(c) It made him angry at Jane’s mother.
(d) It made him love Jane’s sister.

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

5. What was special about the Snowball skate?
(a) Darren fell and broke his cheekbone.
(b) A girl asked Darren to skate.
(c) Darren skated with a girl who held his hand.
(d) Darren got in a fight with his classmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sima’s relationship with Eric begin?

2. What did Jonathan specialize in at the Topeka Foundation?

3. How many years after the Snowball did Darren’s classmates push a girl toward him and tell him to kiss her?

4. What does the narrator say the Topekans feel about Fred Phelps?

5. Where was Jonathan returning the U.S. from, when he recalls being 16, at the beginning of the New York School chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Adam lose his L-D debate?

4. What is the importance of the purple cow?

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

6. What cause Jane to consciously redirect her thoughts about Adam’s behavior, and how did she do so?

7. What motivated Darren to throw the cue ball at the girl?

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

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

10. Where did Darren walk to, and where did he end up, before he got a ride home?

(see the answer keys)

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