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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Kicking: It Goes Without Saying, Junk Dilemmas No. 64, Her Man, Speedy Recruitment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stevie tell Stella before leaving for Edinburgh in Victory on New Year's Day?
(a) They should see other people.
(b) He is HIV positive.
(c) He is gay.
(d) He loves her.

2. Why is getting a cab to Swannie's a difficulty in The Skag Boys?
(a) Some yuppies want the cab.
(b) Neither Renton or Sick Boy have any money.
(c) The cabbie does not want to pick up junkies.
(d) It is raining and all the cabs are taken.

3. What does Renton have to convince a pub owner of to use a toilet in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) He is not going to do drugs.
(b) He is a Hibs fan.
(c) He is not a tourist.
(d) He is not with the health board.

4. What substance does Mike Forrester give Renton instead of smack in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) A can of Blackthorn.
(b) Opium suppositories.
(c) Off-brand methadone.
(d) Overly-cut blow.

5. What sadistic thing does Swan do in The Skag Boys?
(a) Has sex with Renton's girlfriend.
(b) Imply he is out of heroin,
(c) Threatens to make the boys share a needle.
(d) Hold a knife to Sick Boy's neck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stevie currently live?

2. What playwright does Renton talk to the English girls in In Overdrive about?

3. What is different about the narrative voice in Growing Up in Public from previous chapters?

4. Why does Renton have to rummage through his own filth in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

5. Why does Renton not answer the door in Junk Dilemmas No. 64?

(see the answer key)

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