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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 Bill read about in the text from the manuscript?
(a) Junkies banned in subways
(b) A quack medical treatment
(c) His parents death
(d) His brother's success

2. Which two people take the answer to #153 away from Bill?
(a) Mary and Jack
(b) Bill Gains and Subway Slim
(c) The bartender and the policeman
(d) Old Ike and Bill's wife

3. What kind of glossary does Bill present at the end of the book?
(a) Medical terms for drugs
(b) Characters in the novel
(c) Slang
(d) Location used in the novel

4. What does Burroughs present in Appendix 1?
(a) Part of the original manuscript
(b) A glossary
(c) Character biographies
(d) His own biography

5. What kind of bars does Bill visit in this chapter?
(a) Gay bars
(b) Sea side bars
(c) Tourist bars
(d) Single bars

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the police threaten to incarcerate?

2. What does the first doctor tell Bill to stop doing?

3. Rollins diagnose Bill with ______________.

4. For what kind of drug do Bill and Old Ike ask the doctors to write prescriptions?

5. To what does Bill equate giving up junk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Summarize the novel.

5. Of what does Appendix 3 consist?

6. Of what does this final section of the novel consist?

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

8. What is Bill's situation by the end of this segment?

9. How does Rollins help Bill make a recovery from drugs and alcohol?

10. How is drink affecting Bill in a bad way in Segment 10?

(see the answer keys)

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