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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. Where is Candy heading when she picks up a hitchhiker?
(a) The brothel.
(b) Her doctors.
(c) Some hot springs.
(d) The outback.

2. What does Candy tell her mother she has had since being a teen?
(a) An addiction.
(b) The wrong path to follow.
(c) A fear.
(d) Clenched fists.

3. What kind of property do Candy and the narrator buy together?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A beach house.
(c) A farm.
(d) A cottage.

4. Why do Candy and the narrator watch so much TV?
(a) To make the most of their high.
(b) To pass the time.
(c) To distract themselves.
(d) To keep from getting high.

5. What does freelancing mean for Candy?
(a) Working without a brothel.
(b) Working new clientelle.
(c) Making house calls.
(d) Selling her paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator feel comforted by heroin?

2. What does the narrator call his needle scars?

3. Who gets the narrator high when he quits his detoxing?

4. How many siblings does the narrator have?

5. Why does Candy downgrade in brothels to work at?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do in the postal office that gets him arrested?

2. Why does Kay kick the narrator out of her house?

3. Why does the narrator not think the boat dream refers to his drug use?

4. What kinds of things did Candy do after the narrator went to Sydney?

5. Why does the narrator take a tram?

6. How does the narrator prove that he takes his methadone as directed?

7. What happens when Candy adopts Willy?

8. What does the boat dream symbolize?

9. What does the narrator use his Femoral vein for, and what does this indicate?

10. What does the narrator feel swallowed up by in Chapter 14?

(see the answer keys)

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