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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. Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to amphetamine versus methamphetamine?
(a) Methamphetamine is easier to make than amphetamine is.
(b) Methamphetamine is more potent than amphetamine.
(c) Methamphetamine results in fewer overdoses than does amphetamine.
(d) It is possible to intravenously use methamphetamine, but not to intravenously use amphetamine.

2. Who calls David during Nic's freshman year to tell him he is failing?
(a) The principal.
(b) The vice principal.
(c) The freshman dean.
(d) The registrar.

3. Nic decides that his choice of college had been a mistake and that he would do better at what type of college?
(a) An art college.
(b) A smaller college.
(c) A more progressive college.
(d) A more studious college.

4. With whom did David first try crystal methamphetamine?
(a) Nic.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Charles.
(d) Vicki.

5. To whom does David attribute Nic's love for film directors such as Godard, Bergman, and Kurosawa?
(a) Himself.
(b) Jasper.
(c) Vicki.
(d) Karen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug does David name as the most prevalent one in the schools he had attended?

2. In what year does Chapter 1 begin?

3. Nic and a friend make prank phone calls they have learned how to make by watching what television show?

4. Illicit methamphetamine labs are said to have emerged in San Francisco in what year?

5. After listing a myriad of impressions at which Nic is skilled, David says that Nic's best impression is of whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does David react when Nic offers him a hit of a marijuana joint when they are out on a walk together?

2. What major revelation does David make to the reader upon describing his son's admission of crystal meth use?

3. What negative milestone takes place in Nic's life takes place just before Nic's eighteenth birthday?

4. What is Charles's first close call with drugs and how is David involved?

5. How does David Sheff characterize his friend Charles?

6. What is the author's purpose for using a quote from The Tempest as an epigraph for Part II?

7. How do the themes of secrecy and deception emerge within the memoir's introduction?

8. What reason does Sheff provide for his decision to forego foreshadowing within the memoir?

9. How is the theme of family bonds depicted within the scene of Daisy's birth?

10. What is the strongest evidence of Nic's negative feelings about his parents' divorce?

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