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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's father want her to do?

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

3. What does the narrator agree to help Mason with?

4. Where is Candy's reception?

5. How is the narrator injured when Dirty Julie gets angry with his friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Candy to change her career?

2. What job does Candy take in Melbourne, and how does the narrator feel about it?

3. What does the narrator do while Candy is working at the brothel in East Melbourne?

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

5. What excuse does the narrator give for falling asleep at his wedding reception?

6. What is freebasing?

7. What do Candy, Lex and the narrator do while they are together in Melbourne?

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

9. How did drug use change Schumann's life?

10. Who is Tucker, and what does he do for the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How did Schumann die, and how did the narrator respond to this death?

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