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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. What does the gang do to the writer's wife?
(a) Take her hostage.
(b) Photograph her.
(c) Rape her.
(d) Kill her.

2. What does Alex learn happened to the old woman?
(a) She was eaten by her cats.
(b) She lost her memory.
(c) She decided not to press charges.
(d) She died of her injuries.

3. What does Alex do to the two girls?
(a) Get them drunk and steal their money.
(b) Insult their music and kick them out.
(c) Get them drunk and rape them.
(d) Beat them to death.

4. What do Alex's cell mates do to him?
(a) Take the blame.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Betray him.
(d) Stick up for him.

5. What does 'staja' mean?
(a) Stale jam.
(b) Standard jailhouse.
(c) Stationary jacket.
(d) State jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls the police?

2. How many seconds does Alex have to wipe the grin off his face?

3. How do the officers describe Alex when he looks in the mirror?

4. What does Alex sing like?

5. Who says that big money is available?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of the chapter, why is Alex leading his friends to "his doom?"

2. Do you think Alex deserves the treatment he gets from his parents? Would you let him stay if you were his father or mother?

3. Is it fair that Alex took the blame for killing the new prisoner?

4. Why does Alex and his gang act the way they do?

5. How do the characters in the novel speak? How is their language different?

6. What does Alex think to himself when the police give him a statement to sign? Why?

7. Why does Alex punch Dim in the face?

8. What does the man have planned for Alex?

9. What do you think the appearance of Dim and Billyboy add to the novel's theme of authority?

10. What happens in the dream Alex has? What does this foreshadow?

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