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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 Old Ike begin purchasing from pharmacies each month?
(a) Codeine
(b) Benzedrine
(c) Medical morphine
(d) Anti depressants

2. What does Bill begin searching for the moment he arrives in Mexico City?
(a) Accommodation
(b) Drink
(c) Junk
(d) Prostitutes

3. What plant does Bill read about in this chapter?
(a) Sage
(b) Yage
(c) Tamzin
(d) Peyote

4. For what kind of drug do Bill and Old Ike ask the doctors to write prescriptions?
(a) Cocaine
(b) Codeine
(c) Amphetime
(d) Morphine

5. Who does Bill meet at the beginning of this segment?
(a) Norris
(b) Old Ike
(c) Horace
(d) Frederick Fancy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill read about in the text from the manuscript?

2. To what does Bill equate giving up junk?

3. What does Bill say life compresses into while using morphine?

4. Why does Bill hire a lawyer?

5. What does Bill Smuggle into Old Ike?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way do the police treat Bill badly?

2. Why does Bill decide to flee to Mexico?

3. Of what do appendices 4, 5, 6 and 7 consist?

4. How does Old Ike help Bill in this segment?

5. What is yage?

6. What information does Gains bring about Bill's old acquaintances?

7. What does Bill do after he is released from prison?

8. What are Bill's relationship with drugs in Segment 11?

9. Why do Pat and Bill decide to stop selling drugs?

10. Summarize the novel.

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