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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 animal does the narrator envision himself as?

2. What drug does Paul Hillman sell?

3. Why does the narrator stop wearing a watch?

4. How does Candy's mother feel after visiting Candy's property for Sunday Brunch?

5. What is different about Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Casper living with the narrator drastically change his life?

2. What does the narrator say insanity is?

3. What job does Candy think the narrator should take in Chapter 13, and why?

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

5. How does the narrator feel while cooking?

6. What do Candy and the narrator do to try and get through detoxing?

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

8. What surprises the narrator most when he visits Candy at the hospital after his stay with Sally?

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

10. Why do Carl and the narrator bond?

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 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 3

What were the narrator's two loves, and how did he balance his need for both in his life?

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