My Friend Dahmer

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following words best describes Dahmer’s reaction in the Prologue when his peers mock him?

A) Glee

B) Nonchalance

C) Fear

D) Dismay

2. Derf Backderf notes that he “first met Jeff Dahmer in the seventh grade, when the kids from the district’s three elementary schools were stirred together in the hormonal soup that was junior high” (Part 1). Which of the following literary terms does the narrator use in this quote?

A) Simile

B) Metaphor

C) Personification

D) Allusion

3. Which of the following words best describes Dahmer’s countenance during his adolescence?

A) Enraged

B) Docile

C) Warm

D) Stoic

4. Which of the following words best describes how Dahmer reacts to Cindy Zlatka’s death by suicide?

A) Concern

B) Awe

C) Disapproval

D) Inquisitive

5. Upon reflection, how does Backderf view the support mechanisms at his high school for struggling students like Dahmer?

A) Notably intuitive to students’ needs

B) Hyper aware of the misbehavior in older students

C) Increasingly punitive for those individuals who broke any rules

D) Particularly lacking in structure and discipline

6. Which of the following phrases best describes Dahmer’s home environment?

A) Compassionate

B) Dysfunctional

C) Narcissistic

D) Overbearing

7. Watching Dahmer drink sequentially, Backderf notes, “I’d never seen someone drink like that, gulping can after can.