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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Candy like to do at Albert Lake Park?

2. What do Candy and her new husband do on their wedding night?

3. Why does the narrator get kicked out of the Queens Road flat?

4. What does the narrator say he spends most of his life doing?

5. What does the narrator think of Schumann's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator only get to meet Lucy once?

2. How does the theft of the wallet affect the narrator later in his life?

3. What is a coke test?

4. What happens when Keith wants to spend a night with Candy?

5. What happens when the narrator's friends confront Dirty Julie about her tainted stash?

6. What is freebasing?

7. What does the narrator think about while his wife is in labor with their first child?

8. How does Candy get rid of crabs?

9. Why does the narrator fall asleep at his wedding, and what do others think of this?

10. How does O'Brien get Candy to use heroin after she tries to quit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 2

What does the narrator see as the major turning point in his drug addiction, and what brought him to this point?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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