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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 word have Nic and David always used to affirm their love for one another?
(a) Always.
(b) Everything.
(c) Forever.
(d) Squeezes.

2. What make of car does Nic drive?
(a) A Mazda.
(b) A Kia.
(c) A Toyota.
(d) A Jeep.

3. When David asks the wireless operator to trace the location of Nic's cell phone, what is NOT a city she reports to him?
(a) Reno.
(b) Billings.
(c) Portland.
(d) Sacramento.

4. Who ends up helping Nic pay the debt he owes due to stealing checks from a family friend?
(a) Z.
(b) Charles.
(c) David.
(d) Vicki.

5. How long after Nic's breakup with Z. does he stop returning his father David's phone calls?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of information does David struggle to remember after he suffers a medical emergency?

2. While attending Hampshire College, Nic finds a sponsor who is a graduate student attending what college?

3. What final advice does David give to the addicted young woman for whom he buys lunch?

4. What type of facility is St. Helena Hospital?

5. The program into which Nic checks at Hazelden will last at least how long?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sheff mean when he calls addiction an "equal-opportunity affliction" (177)?

2. What major medical emergency befalls David Sheff just before Nic's eighteenth birthday?

3. For what purpose does Sheff use the shark and the cormorant simile?

4. How much more likely are addicts to have underlying mental health issues, in relation to the general population?

5. How late is Nic when he sets a lunch date with his father at the restaurant Steps of Rome?

6. What is the main element of twelve-step recovery programs that Nic rejects?

7. What distinction does Sheff make between blame and accountability?

8. In what way is the theme of hope demonstrated in David's mention of St. Helena Hospital?

9. What is the symbolism of Nic's note to Jasper?

10. Experts David consults say that addicts are skilled at exploiting what aspects of their parents?

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