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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A junky, even at the Sailor’s level, runs on what?
(a) Street time
(b) Mean time
(c) Caffeine
(d) Junk time

2. Who is Andrew Keif’s chauffer?
(a) Carl Peterson
(b) The Sailor
(c) Aracknid
(d) Mark

3. What does Dr. Schafer refer to his live patient as?
(a) The Elephant Man
(b) The Complete All American Deanxietized Man
(c) The Annihilated Sociopath of America
(d) The Culturally Desensitized Monkey

4. Who is described as a tough guy?
(a) Hauser
(b) O'Brien
(c) Williams
(d) Whitman

5. Which of the following characters dies from an overdose?
(a) The Beagle
(b) Sailor
(c) AJ
(d) Hassan

6. Who accosts Carl when he leaves the doctor’s office?
(a) His daughter
(b) William Lee
(c) A homosexual man
(d) His wife

7. How many fingers is the boy missing?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 8

8. What is the setting of Chapter 16?
(a) Hassan's Rumpus Room
(b) The Old Court House
(c) AJ's apartment
(d) Hassan Hospital

9. What word refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease?
(a) Deportation
(b) Quarantine
(c) Arrhythmia
(d) Immigration

10. Who is trying to have his case heard in Chapter 16?
(a) AJ
(b) William
(c) Mark
(d) The Sailor

11. Who does William offer to set up when speaking with Hauser and O’Brien?
(a) Carl Peterson
(b) Marty Steel
(c) Miguel Diaz
(d) Juan Huarez

12. Where does Fats Terminal come from?
(a) Washington State
(b) The City Cemetery
(c) New York
(d) City Pressure Tanks

13. What color is Sailor’s felt hat?
(a) Green
(b) Gray
(c) Blue
(d) White

14. Who hangs the girl from the theater troupe in the noose?
(a) James
(b) Mark
(c) Peter
(d) Joe

15. The author writes, “The subway sweeps by with a black blast of” what?
(a) Iron
(b) Smoke
(c) Wheat
(d) Evil

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, the scene changes to a courtroom where the doctors are accused of killing a patient who had turned himself into what?

2. What term refers to a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?

3. Which of the following groups opposes everyone and calls everyone "The Human Virus”?

4. Who calls Carl Peterson in for a meeting in Chapter 18?

5. When the boy asks the Sailor if he’s an agent, the Sailor responds that he prefers what word?

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